Eminent Victorians
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Eminent Victorians
(Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Penguin Books, 1986
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Reprint. Originally issued in series: Penguin modern classics
Includes bibliographies
Contents of Works
- Cardinal Manning
- Florence Nightingale
- Dr. Arnold
- The end of General Gordon
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Eminent VictoriansIntroduction
Preface
Cardinal Manning
Florence Nightingale
Dr Arnold
The End of General Gordon
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