Eminent Victorians

✍ Scribed by Strachey, Lytton

• Book ID: 108228521
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 282 KB
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141958842

✦ Synopsis

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.