Eminent VictoriansIntroduction
Preface
Cardinal Manning
Florence Nightingale
Dr Arnold
The End of General Gordon
Giles Lytton Strachey, the son of General Sir Richard Strachey,
F.R.S., was born in 1880. He showed a gift for writing from his
earliest youth. After leaving Cambridge, where he was at Trinity
College, in 1905, he became known in literary circles in London for
his essays and book reviews; for two years he was a regular
contributor to the Spectator. In 1912 he published his first book,
Landmarks in French Literature. This caused no sensation, and
gained very little recognition till after the publication of
Eminent Victorians in 1918, which was an immediate and spectacular
success, and of Queen Victoria in 1921. These two books on
Victorian England made him famous, at once securing for him a
positions as biographer and stylist which the ensuing years have
served to consolidate.
In 1928 Elizabeth and Essex appeared, followed in 1931 by Portraits
in Miniature. Lytton Strachey died in 1932. Much of his outstanding
work as a literary critic was included in a collection of studied
under the title Books and Characters in 1922 and in a posthumous
volume, Characters and Commentaries.
An illustrated edition of the classic, with numerous paintings, drawings, and photographs of the Victorian era enhancing the text.-- MR
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