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Eminent Victorians

Paperback • 1986 • English

Eminent Victorians

By Lytton Strachey

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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 self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of ...Show more

Autobiography: historical, political and military

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9780140183504

Published year

1986

Language

English

Original title

Eminent Victorians

Format

Paperback

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