The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

: /ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃɪ/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. Giles Lytton Strachey (pron. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.