Eminent Victorians

<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/5961.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Eminent Victorians</u><br><span>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.</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />