Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family - Softcover

Caine, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199291853 ISBN 13: 9780199291854

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Stracheys were an exceptionally intelligent and unusual family. Prominent in imperial administration, science, and feminism in the nineteenth century, and in the suffrage movement, women's education, and the bringing of new approaches to sexuality in the twentieth century, they had a wide and significant influence. Examining Lytton Strachey, his parents and nine siblings, Barbara Caine provides a fascinating picture of a diverse and complex family in a period of change from Victorian England to the beat generation.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Caine is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia.

Review:

`Review from previous edition Caine deftly explores the lives of her subjects...an engrossing book that will be of interest not just to historians but also to the intelligent general reader.'
THES

`Stunning insight'
The Lady

`Its broad sweep of connecting ideas and its revealing and often amusing detail of the lives of the less well-known Stracheys.'
TLS

`That biography and history can be fruitful friends is brilliantly demonstrated in Barbara Caine's new book about the Strachey family.'
The Guardian

`Sterling work, meticulous research, something of great value.'
Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199291853
• ISBN 13: 9780199291854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526