Eminent Victorians

In 'Eminent Victorians,' Lytton Strachey pioneers the biographical genre with a novel approach of incisive critique melded with witty narrations, distilling the essence of four quintessential figures of the Victorian era. With the precision of a surgeon and the flair of a novelist, Strachey presents Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon, not as untarnished heroe...