Eminent Victorians
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153
1918
English
- Preface and Cardinal Manning, Chapter 1
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 2
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 3
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 4
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 5
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 6
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 7
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 8
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 9
- Cardinal Manning, Chapter 10
- Florence Nightingale, Chapter 1
- Florence Nightingale, Chapter 2
- Florence Nightingale, Chapter 3
- Florence Nightingale, Chapters 4 & 5
- Dr. Arnold, Part 1
- Dr. Arnold, Part 2
- The End of General Gordon, Part 1
- The End of General Gordon, Part 2
- The End of General Gordon, Part 3
- The End of General Gordon, Part 4
- The End of General Gordon, Part 5
- The End of General Gordon, Part 6
- The End of General Gordon, Part 7
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.
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