Debunking Church, Public School and Empire, his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold of Rugby, and General Gordon of Khartoum changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation.

Lytton Strachey approached his subjects with scepticism rather than reverence, and his iconoclastic wit and engaging narratives thrilled as well as shocked his contemporaries. It ushered in the modern biography and raised the genre to the level of high literary art. Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. Lytton Strachey is well-known as a member of the Bloomsbury group,which included Virginia Woolf.Ĭardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon.Popularity of biography among general readers and increasingly for academic study, and the importance of Eminent Victorians in the history of the genre.John Sutherland is well-known as the author of Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and other puzzle books in OWC, and for his Guardian column and media appearances (e.g.on BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' and BBC4).The only paperback edition to include bibliography, chronology, introduction, biographical sketches of the four subjects (and notes).Draws on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.The only fully annotated edition, essential for the serious modern reader.

Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.

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