Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning Florence Nightingale Dr. Arnold and General Gordon

It is brilliant delicious exquisitely civilized. I enjoyed as much as any the Gordon which alone was quite new to me. -Bertrand Russell (1918)Eminent Victorians-Cardinal Manning Florence Nightingale Dr. Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (1918) is a collection of short biographies of four leading personalities of the Victorian era by Lytton Strachey. This book would transform the art of biography by taking aim at these heroes of the Victorian age instead of showing the customary adulation of biographies. Although Stracheys writing displeased some conventional readers many considered it brilliant. He opened a new period in biography writing.