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Eminent Victorians

Paperback • 2009 • English

Eminent Victorians

By Lytton Strachey

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About the book

Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and raised the genre to the level of high literary art. Lytton Strachey approached his subjects with scepticism rather than reverence, and his iconoclastic wit and engaging narratives thrilled as well as shocked his contemporaries. Debunking...Show more

Autobiography: historical, political and military

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9780199555017

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Eminent Victorians

Format

Paperback

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