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Strachey

noun
1.
English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932).  Synonyms: Giles Lytton Strachey, Lytton Strachey.






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"Strachey" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the settlers at Roanoke has been a frequent subject of speculation. When Jamestown was established, in 1607, the search for them was renewed, but nothing definite could be learned. There is, indeed, a story told by Strachey that the unfortunate colonists, finally abandoning all hope, intermixed with the Indians at Croatoan, and after living with them till about the time of the arrival at Jamestown were, at the instigation of Powhatan, cruelly massacred. ...
— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler

... pages. From a concise bibliographical essay the work has grown into a biography of a philosopher and man of science with extraordinary surroundings, wherein the patient reader may trace the gradual development of Virginia from the earliest time to 1585 ; I especially,' says Strachey, I that which hath bene published by that true lover of vertue and great learned professor of all arts and knowledges, Mr Hariots, who lyved there in the tyme of the first colony, spake the Indian language, searcht the country,' etc ; Hariot's ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens

... built into the exterior N. wall of the chancel. Near it is an incised pair of shears (a woolstaplers' mark). Not far from the church is an old manor house, half of which has been destroyed. Within the parish is Sutton Court (Sir E. Strachey), a house which has historical associations, for here Bishop Hooper found an asylum during the Marian persecution. The mansion is of considerable antiquity, parts of it dating from the reign of Edward II., and others ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade



Words linked to "Strachey" :   biographer, Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey



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