Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

by Lytton Strachey (Author), Lytton Strachey (Author), Lytton Strachey (Author)

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  2002

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  1989

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  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.