Eminent Victorians

By Lytton Strachey, Giles

Book Id: WPLBN0002954223
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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Eminent Victorians
Author:	Lytton Strachey, Giles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Biography, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Eminent Victorians
Historic Publication Date:	1918
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Lytton Strachey, B. G. (1918). Eminent Victorians. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, 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.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Biography, Essay/Short nonfiction