num_pages: 336
description: Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four "eminent Victorians" dropped an explosive charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. This edition is unique in being fully annotated and in drawing on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.
language: English
title: Eminent Victorians
titlecomplete: Eminent Victorians
characters: Charles George Gordon, Thomas Arnold, Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale
genres: Classics, British Literature, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, 19th Century, Essays, Nonfiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 2419
publisher: Oxford University Press