Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold
by By Strachey, Lytton
Category: History , Europe , Great Britain , General

Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.