This is an excellent piece. If anything, you're slightly too merciful. As you mentioned, Virginia Woolf said hundreds more awful things. And, apart from a few works by her and by E.M. Forster, the writings of the Bloomsbury group remain largely unread.
Against Lytton Strachey
This is an excellent piece. If anything, you're slightly too merciful. As you mentioned, Virginia Woolf said hundreds more awful things. And, apart from a few works by her and by E.M. Forster, the writings of the Bloomsbury group remain largely unread.
For what it's worth, I gave Forster a bit of a kicking: https://williampoulos.substack.com/p/would-you-betray-your-friends-or