Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

by Lytton Strachey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156027892
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/18/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.