The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance,… - Lytton Strachey

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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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About Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English biographer, critic and leading light of the Bloomsbury group. He is seen by some as the founder of the modern "debunking" school of biography.

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Native Name: Giles Lytton Strachey
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