Lytton Strachey, English biographer, was born in 1880. He was an openly gay member of the artistically talented Bloomsbury Group, centering on Leonard and Virginia Woolf. (Strachey had once proposed to Virginia née Stephen, but she laughed. When he was conscripted in World War I, he declared himself to be a pacifist. When the board asked what he would do if a Hun were raping his sister, he said that he would try to interpose his body.) See the film Carrington to receive an interesting picture of Strachey. His biography Eminent Victorians was the first major anti-Victorian iconoclastic work. He was a writer, but yet to publish Eminent Victorians' -an iconoclastic set of satirical biographical essays which would make his name; and his friends considered him the most brilliant of them all. He was also homosexual. The Merriam-Webster ....

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