Eminent Victorians
Strachey, Lytton Eminent Victorians consists of four short biographies by Lytton Strachey of Victorians who were famous in their day: Cardinal Manning, a powerful cleric, Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, Thomas Arnold, creator of the modern-day English public school, and General Gordon, a popular officer of the British Army.
In Strachey¿s day, these people were considered heroes and paragons of Victorian morality and ethics. But instead of leng...