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Eminent Victorians
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A collection of four biographical essays examining prominent Victorian figures: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon. Suitable for readers interested in Victorian history, biography, and the development of modern biographical writing.
Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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