Eminent Victorians

First published in 1918, 'Eminent Victorians' exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its notable figures : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon. All of these remarkable people shared an excess of moral righteousness that in some way impaired their capacity for humanity. It was a failing, Strachey believed, characteristic of the age that helped bring about World War I. Strachey set out not only to... Voir plus