The Intimacies of General Gordon's Continents
Journal: Victorian Studies
Year: 2018

The Intimacies of General Gordon’s Continents Ryan D. Fong (bio) Upon reaching the final biographical sketch in Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918), that of Charles George Gordon, readers immediately encounter a small difference from what has preceded it. While the first three portraits in Strachey’s book take their titles from the names of their respective individuals of focus, the last section strays from this pattern, instead presenting its topic as “The End of General Gordon.” Althou