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Bombay to Bloomsbury : a biography of the Strachey family / Barbara Caine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caine, Barbara, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932--Family.
- Strachey, Lytton.
- Strachey family.
- British--India--Biography.
- British.
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (507 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Stracheys were an intelligent and unusual family, prominent in areas such as science and feminism in the 19th century and in the suffrage movement and women's education in the 20th. Examining Lytton Strachey, his parents and nine siblings, Caine provides a picture of a diverse and complex family.
- Contents:
- An Anglo-Indian family
- An imperial marriage
- Strachey childhoods
- School days
- University life
- Modern marriages
- Single life
- Sibling ties
- Work, income, and changing career patterns
- Gender transformations and the question of sexuality
- A feminist family
- Continuity and change
- A literary family
- Old age and death.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-474) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03900-3
- 1-281-34581-4
- 9786611345815
- 0-19-153052-2
- OCLC:
- 476257810
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