Eminent Victorians

Author(s)

• Strachey, Lytton
• Holroyd, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey ; with an introduction by Michael Holroyd

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin Books, 1986

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BA1427895X
• ISBN:
  • 0140183507
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 267 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 283.3
  • LCC : DA562
  • DC19 : 941.081/092/2
  • DC19 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892
  • LCSH : Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
  • LCSH : Arnold, Thomas, 1795-1842
  • LCSH : Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461