Word: strachey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a way with men," says Lytton Strachey to his endlessly adoring companion, Dora Carrington. "I wish I knew your secret...
...Strachey, of course, was the eminent biographer of Eminent Victorians (among others) and one of the central figures in that most prominent and influential of this century's literary circles, the Bloomsbury group. He was also a homosexual who was incapable of sustaining an intimate relationship with any of his male lovers. Carrington was a painter of modest gifts who gave him constancy despite having, as Strachey's biographer Michael Holroyd put it, a "solitary and promiscuous nature, like that of a cat." Indeed, so intense was her necessarily platonic devotion that she committed suicide shortly after...
Sunday. Death a growing preoccupation. Hitler's murderous rise in Germany The passing of close friends like Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry ("intolerable: the impoverishment"). Woolf in her 50s now, her best work behind her, battling the recurrent flashing rays of light and sharp pains in her head, the attacks of near madness that (we know) augur her suicide. "And then all this incandescence led to the galloping horses in my heart the night before last," she writes after an overexertion. "I lay in bed reasoning that I could not come smash. Death I defy...