· Post date: Unlike the other biographies we’ve looked at this year (Roper’s Life of More, Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey, and Boswell’s Life of Johnson), Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians is a work marked by distance seen through the fresh eyes of a new generation. Roper, Cavendish and Boswell were all writing of their contemporaries, and of contemporaries for whom they . Introduction. ytton Strachey () was an essayist and biographer, and a prominent member of London's culturally élite Bloomsbury Group. He had made his first real impact on the literary world with Eminent Victorians (), in which he presented the early twentieth-century reader with a series of iconoclastic portraits of some of the idols of the previous century. Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had until then been regarded as heroes: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (although Nightingale is actually praised and her reputation /5(91).
Eminent Victorians, collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in Strachey's portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon revolutionized English bltadwin.ru Strachey, biographers had kept an awestruck distance from their subjects; anything short of adulation was regarded as disrespect. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey E-Text prepared by Martin Adamson martin@bltadwin.ru EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey Preface THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the. Like. "When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.". ― Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. tags: forest-rules. 3 likes.
Eminent Victorians, first published in and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. They were: * Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon The book made Strachey's name and placed him firmly in the top rank of biographers, where he remains. Eminent Victorians () is a collection of four short biographies by Lytton Strachey. The biographies of these famous Victorians are hardly exhaustive but focus on only the most important aspects of each life. Using Freudian psychology to examine each subject’s neuroses, Strachey writes about Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon. Book review: “Eminent Victorians” By Lytton Strachey. Twenty years ago, a friend of mine, Steve Swanson, recommended Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” as a classic in the field of biography — and a delightful read as well. I’ve owned a copy for nearly that long, but only now have come to make my way through it, and I find that everything Steve said about the book is true.
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