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Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
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Eminent Victorians -- Adobe PDF ebook. Lytton Strachey’s classic work. |
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When it was published in 1918, Eminent Victorians became one of the first books to take apart the heroes of an earlier era. Its irreverent essays on Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Dr. Thomas Arnold, General Charles George Gordon, and Florence Nightingale found an eager audience in the post-WW I generation.
"The figure of Lytton Strachey is so important a figure in the history of biography that it compels a pause.... The anger and the interest that his short studies of Eminent Victorian aroused showed that he was able to make Manning, Florence Nightingale, Gordon, and the rest live as they had not lived since they were actually in the flesh.... In the lives of the two great Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, he attempted a far more ambitious task. Biography had never had a fairer chance of showing what it could do. For it was now being put to the test by a writer who was capable of making use of all the liberties that biography had won." VIRGINIA WOOLF "What Strachey understood, for all his abrasiveness, was the principle of human volatility; he knew that the ego seeks at all costs its basic defenses; and he knew what other biographers had not learned -- that a biographical subject is consistently ambiguous, irrational, inexplicable, self-contradicting; hence, it truly lends itself to irony and to delicacies of insight and sentiment.... Lytton Strachey had dared to do what other biographers feared: to interpret his materials courageously, to say what things meant." "Lytton Strachey's chief mission... was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian Age to moral superiority. In Eminent Victorians he stripped forever of their solemn upholstery the religion, the education, the statesmanship and the philanthropy of the society which had brought it about." ... |
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