Word: lytton
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...elegant lady from a landed family who encouraged the boys' brilliance: Ronnie was reading Virgil at the age of six. It was she who decreed the boarding schools they later attended: Eton for Dilly and Ronnie, Rugby for Eddie and Wilfred. Dilly went on to Cambridge, where Lytton Strachey fell in love with him (the compliment was not returned). The others went up to Oxford...
...learn Russian. For recreation this intensely introspective yet active woman walked, skated and rode horseback. She managed a town and a country house and, in Nigel Nicolson's phrase, led a "scintillating social life." When she had nothing else to do, she typed manuscripts for her friend Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians) or scurried to raise a fund of ?500 a year to free T.S. Eliot from his job at the bank. Despite this hectic, variegated life, she wrote up to six letters...
...last, a modern novel more or less about abstinence. Nightshade's protagonist, Edward Lytton, is 40, devoutly Catholic and astonishingly, since he is four years married, a virgin. He does not mind his asexual life; indeed, he is so Victorian that he can barely imagine any other. Alas, his unfulfilled young wife Amy is not resigned to her condition. She indulges in "fantasies of liquid the color of magenta, a pomegranate redness, viscous to the touch, so that one has to lick it dry." Poor Edward is clearly in for trouble...
...prose crackles with innuendo as the plot quickly becomes as complicated as Edward's mind-and as haunted by ghosts and obsessions. British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...
...wife for her, though Ottoline remained with her husband. She was the inspiration for the character of Hermione Roddice in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, the eccentric baronness whose passion for the hero, Birkin, is more a contest of will than a deep emotion. She knew them all: Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, J.M. Keynes, Aldous Huxley, Henry Lamb, William Butler Yeats, Henry James...