Eminent Victorians
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography
Language: English
Keyword(s): biography (334), non-fiction (190), Victorian era (8), Florence Nightingale (3), nineteenth-century (3), public school (2), Cardinal Manning (1), Dr. Arnold (1), General Gordon (1)