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Jul 19, 1990 · Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) [Strachey, Lytton, Holroyd, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
Eminent Victorians, collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in 1918. Strachey’s portraits of Cardinal Manning , Florence Nightingale , Thomas Arnold , and General Charles “Chinese” Gordon revolutionized English biography .
Apr 10, 2024 · Notable Works: “Elizabeth and Essex”. “Eminent Victorians”. Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) was an English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and ...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time “Eminent Victorians” marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the ...
A genre-changing work of biographyEminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the ...
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Books. Eminent Victorians. Lytton Strachey. Oxford University Press, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 300 pages. Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised...
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Eminent Victorians consists of four short biographies by Lytton Strachey of Victorians who were famous in their day: Cardinal Manning, a powerful cleric; Florence Nightingale, founder of...
