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Bombay to Bloomsbury : a biography of the Strachey family / Barbara Caine.

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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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