Eminent Victorians
Strachey, Lytton / Holroyd, Michael
A genre-changing work of biographyEminent 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 quarrie...