Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

288 pages first pub 1918 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging funny informative slow-paced
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A genre-changing work of biography 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 debu...

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