- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780140183504
- Length: 288 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
- Weight: 213g
- Price: £12.99
Eminent Victorians
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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.
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- Paperback 1989
- Ebook 1989