Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning; Dr. Arnold; Florence Nightingale; General Gordon |
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| Authors: | Strachey, Lytton |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS054000, BIO006000, HIS037060 |
| ISBN: | 9780679640158, Related ISBNs: 0679640126, 0679640150, 0701160535, 0736608648, 9780679640127 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 336, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
"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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