Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey was an English biographer and critic, whose literary legacy includes the biography of Queen Victoria, Cardinal Manning, General Gordon and other notable figures. One of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group, he became known for his ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past, which helped to define English literary modernism. 

Published in 1918, “Eminent Victorians” is a collection of short biographies for four great figures of the Victorian age: Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning and General Gordon. Written with the characteristic wit, this work exposes the hypocrisy, the ambition, the immorality and in some cases outright cruelty of some of the Victorian age's most treasured legends. 

We are glad to present you the book of historian, whose works changed the perceptions of the Victorians for a generation.