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

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

Lytton Strachey

372 pages first pub 1918 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging funny informative slow-paced
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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 a...

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