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A genre-changing work of biography

A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait... Read Full Overview

AN HISTORICAL CLASSIC
Eminent Victorians is a collection of biographies on famous English citizens during the Victorian Age. Biographies include Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning, and more.
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Includes Images of Famous Victorians

A genre-changing work of biography 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... Read Full Overview

Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies. Beginning with a discussion of the achievements of Cardinal Manning, Strachey provides insight on the Cardinal's rise to power... Read Full Overview

Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence... Read Full Overview

Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold and 'The End of General Gordon'

Lytton Strachey was a founder of the famed Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of intellectuals and writers in wartime England. Considered a masterpiece of biographical writing, "Eminent Victorians" examines the lives of four important figures representative of the Victorian... Read Full Overview

Eminent Victorians is a non-fiction book written by Lytton Strachey and published in 1918. The book is a collection of biographical essays about four famous figures from the Victorian era: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. Each essay provides... Read Full Overview

Eminent Victorians, first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine.

Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic best known for his biography Queen Victoria and the book Eminent Victorians, which looks at the most famous figures of the age.

Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning,... Read Full Overview

"It is brilliant, delicious, exquisitely civilized. I enjoyed as much as any the Gordon, which alone was quite new to me." -Bertrand Russell (1918)

Eminent Victorians-Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (1918) is a... Read Full Overview