Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.


Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/18/2002
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.56w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780156027892

About the Author
Strachey, Lytton: - Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.