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Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

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 nineteenth-century liberal values.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale. 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...

  • Pickabook

    Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd

  • 0140183507
  • 9780140183504
  • Lytton Strachey
  • 26 October 1989
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
  • New Ed
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