Part one of term paper
, 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 i ...

Part two of term paper
... essays which would make his name; and his friends considered him the most brilliant of them all. He was also homosexual. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Collection of short biographical sketches by , published in 1918. Strachey's portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon revolutionized English biography. Until Strachey, biographers had kept awestruck distance from their subjects; anything short of adulation was ...