Cultural Depictions
Strachey was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in the 1995 film Carrington. At the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Carrington won the Jury Prize and Pryce won Best Actor his performance. In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet.
Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, "there is something of Lytton in Neville". Lytton is also said to be the inspiration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out. Michael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis' The Self-Condemned. In Wyndham Lewis' novel The Apes of God, he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, whom Holroyd describes as "a maliciously distorted and hilarious caricature of Lytton". In the Terminus Note in E.M. Forster's Maurice, Forster remarks that the Cambridge undergraduate Risley in the novel is based on Strachey.
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