# Eminent Victorians

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- Book: [Eminent Victorians](https://www.bookquiver.com/lytton-strachey/eminent-victorians) ([Eminent Victorians.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lytton-strachey/eminent-victorians.md))
- Authors: [Lytton Strachey](https://www.bookquiver.com/lytton-strachey)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-350-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1989-10-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.