Bombay to Bloomsbury A Biography of the Strachey Family

by Caine, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780199250349
• ISBN10: 0199250340
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xii
Abbreviations	xiv
Family Trees	xv
Introduction	1	(262)
1. An Anglo-Indian Family	17	(34)
2. An Imperial Marriage	51	(29)
3. Strachey Childhoods	80	(17)
4. School Days	97	(21)
5. University Life	118	(25)
6. Modern Marriages	143	(38)
7. Single Life	181	(23)
8. Sibling Ties	204	(22)
9. Work, Income, and Changing Career Patterns	226	(37)
10. Gender Transformations and the Question of Sexuality	263	(31)
11. A Feminist Family	294	(33)
12. Continuity and Change	327	(28)
13. A Literary Family	355	(22)
14. Old Age and Death	377	(27)
Afterword	404	(4)
Notes	408	(55)
Bibliography	463	(12)
Index	475