Nino Strachey is the last member of the Strachey family to have grown up at Sutton Court in Somerset, home of the family for more than three hundred years. After studying at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute, Nino worked as a curator for the National Trust and English Heritage. She is also the author of Rooms of Their Own. She lives in West London with her husband and child. Follow her on Twitter @NinoStrachey.
"Young Bloomsbury just BRIMS with the same kind of sexy vitality
embodied by the characters Nino Strachey describes in such
effervescent detail. Just when you might have wondered if there
could possibly be room for a new and revealing study of a group of
lives which have been so meticulously and extensively documented,
Nino's exhilarating lens offers an entirely original and thrilling
focus. As skepticism, admiration, envy, and confusion ebb and flow
between one chattering, seductive, thinking, inspiring generation
and another, this is Gatsby made real."--Juliet Nicolson, author of
Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962
"A brisk, light tonic. . . . [Strachey] provides frothy accounts of
their gatherings. . . . For each rising generation there's reason
to illuminate again their particular, if fleeting, triumphs."
--Claire Mussud, Harper's Magazine
"A lively account of a group of bright young things in the 1920s. A
hundred years ahead of their time, these creative souls were
pushing the boundaries of gender identity and sexual expression,
and - surprisingly - finding acceptance among their friends and
families." --Robert Sackville-West, author of The Searchers: The
Quest for the Lost of the First World War
"A superb, sparky and reflective book charting the doings of the
younger members of the artistic and intellectual coterie." --The
Spectator (UK)
"Above all else, Bloomsbury was a liberating force, as Nino
Strachey shows in her sparkling new book. The younger friends and
relations of the Bells, Stracheys and Woolfs lived, worked and
loved freely, finding their own ways to personal and artistic
fulfilment. This book is packed with their brilliant, subversive
energy" --Anne Chrisholm, author of Frances Partridge: A
Biography
"Great fun and, for all fans of the Bloomsbury Group, enormously
informative - like being transported back to 'dancing the night
hours away underground in the pitch dark and smoke-filled
avant-garde nightclubs of that day, ' you never know who you're
going to meet." --Simon Fenwick, author of The Crichel Boys
"Illuminating... When it came to sex, the Bright Young Things of
the 1920s were 100 years ahead of their time." -- Daily Mail
(UK)
"In this sharp, thoughtful look at the group, their work, and its
impact, Nino Strachey shines a light on cultural masterminds whose
lives and work would change the world forever." --Town &
Country
"Insightfully analyzes the substance of Bloomsbury's social
network, how their lives intertwined as a kind of queer chosen
family, and how they adapted to heteronormative expectations while
remaining true to their desires and identities...Written in lucid
prose, this is a dream to read for those interested in queer
history." --Kirkus
"It's only a slight exaggeration to say that the story of
Bloomsbury is the story of modern literary biography itself."
--Wall Street Journal
"The author's group portrait is both enlightening and fond...and
does literature a great favor by gifting them with this fascinating
account." --Booklist
"There is much for Americans to learn from and celebrate in this
lively account of Bloomsbury's freethinking pioneers." --Washington
Post
"This captivating history explores the second generation of queer
British writers and artists who pushed the original Bloomsbury
Group, which included Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, to live more
publicly and go farther creatively." --The New York Times
"This lively group biography offers an intimate glimpse of the
Bright Young Things, the artistic coterie that emerged in the
nineteen-twenties as successors to the prewar Bloomsburyites."
--The New Yorker
"With a deft turn of the Bloomsbury kaleidoscope, and an impressive
gift for finding treasures in the archives, Nino Strachey reveals
colorful new patterns of experiments in living which speak
trenchantly to our own cultural moment." --Mark Hussey, author of
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
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