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	Rereadings: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The Victorian worthies had not just been hypocrites, they had bequeathed to Strachey's generation the whole "profoundly evil" system "by which it is sought to settle international disputes by force".
		Virginia Woolf thought he was "painfully anxious", and suspected "that he is now inclined to question whether Eminent Victorians, 4 in number, and requiring 4 years for their production, are quite enough to show for his age and pretensions".
		Eminent Victorians had, says Holroyd, begun "without a thesis, but acquired a theme" because of the war.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,758197,00.html (1519 words)

	Eminent Victorians - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.
		The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame.
		Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /eminent_victorians.htm (210 words)

	Eminent Victorians Summary
		Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era.
		Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880.
		Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.
	www.bookrags.com /Eminent_Victorians (160 words)

	What the Victorians Did for Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Last of the Victorians For alumni of the old Victoria College in Egypt.
		Victorians.net Vintage Victorian clipart, arranged in categories of angels, cherubs, flowers, hearts, and Holidays for personal use.
		Virtual Victorians Victorian artefacts, objects, news, photographs, presented in an innovative way for schools, parents and those interested in the Victorian era.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-What_the_Victorians_Did_for_Us.html (214 words)

	Eminent Victorians Penguin Twentieth Century Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Strachey was a Victorian eccentric, educated at Trinity College, where he became a member of the secret society of "the Apostles," an elite group of passionate intellectuals who rejected Victorian mores, which later evolved into the Bloomsbury group (E.M Forester, Leonard and Virginia Woolf).
		Strachey's radical goal in EMINENT VICTORIANS was to question the moral arrogance, hypocrisy, and ego of the Victorians.
		EMINENT VICTORIANS is a splendid collection of four portraits of an ecclesiastic (Cardinal Manning), a woman of action (Florence Nightingale), an educator (Thomas Arnold), and a man of adventure (General Charles "Chinese" Gordon).
	www.hallbiographies.com /store/books_0140183507_Eminent-Victorians-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics.html (650 words)

	Eminent (but ruthless) Victorians - The Boston Globe
		No acte gratuit this, as in "Crime and Punishment." Edward Charles Glyver is simply practicing his stroke for the assassination of his lifelong enemy: that human snake in lordling's clothing who since boyhood has betrayed him, and usurped not only his rightful inheritance but, still worse.
		Michael Cox's 700-page pastiche of eye-rolling Victorian revenge melodrama, "The Meaning of Night," is all plot, or rather, all plots within plots; and it's a puzzle how to write about it without giving them away.
		Despite much padding to imitate the deliberate pace of Victorian fiction, and an ornate style that is as much wind-drag as ornament, Cox achieves authentic suspense.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2007/01/07/eminent_but_ruthless_victorians (885 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Colourful Eminence - Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians
		Eminent Victorians were eminent because the machinery existed to create eminence in ways in which it had not been created before.
		It is important to acknowledge that Victorian England possessed a powerful form of what Robert Michels called the "critical spirit" and one consequence of this was that it lionised radicals and outsiders.
		Strachey is seen, simply and conventionally, as a prime mover in the destruction of "Victorian values", literally a forerunner of the "permissive society" and an opponent of Margaret Thatcher.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000519.php (1685 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Inventing the Victorians: Books: Matthew Sweet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Table-rappers: The Victorians and the Occult by Ronald Pearsall
		A century after Queen Victoria's death there is a scramble to re-evaluate and explode many of the myths attached to Victorian Britain which started with Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1913) and have been cultivated ever since by assorted Freudian analysts, feminists, strait-laced historians, political spin-doctors (remember Margaret Thatcher's "Victorian values") and lazy media types.
		I consider myself something of a minor student of the Victorian era, and when I hear pundits and commentators disparaging the Victorians, they often seemed to me to be talking in terms of stereotypes, rather than reality.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Inventing-Victorians-Matthew-Sweet/dp/0571206581 (1255 words)

	Eminent Victorians Audio Book
		Eminent Victorians is now available as an audio book.
		Eminent Victorians was authored by Lytton Strachey and is narrated by Jill Masters.
		Eminent Victorians is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/eminent-victorians.php (399 words)

	Eminent Victorians Penguin Twentieth Century Classics by Lytton Strachey
		The answer may be that all four shared one unusual character trait, one so reminiscent of the Victorian age that even the thought of it brings the scent of lavender to mind: extreme earnestness.
		Manning was a priest in the Church of England who became involved in the Oxford Movement, a group of churchmen who disliked the increasing secularization of the C of E and who wished to bring it back to its Catholic roots.
		Strachey also seems to have viewed her invalid status as something of a neurotic problem, which in the light of recent research (showing that she likely had undulant fever) may not be accurate.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Eminent-Victorians-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics-0140183507.htm (2119 words)

	Eminent Victorians Summary & Essays - Lytton Strachey
		In Eminent Victorians (1918), Lytton Strachey examined the lives of four famous English individuals from the Victorian Era and found that they were not quite what previous biographies and popular legend had made them out to be.
		The portrait of Gordon is the most complex of the four, showing a man who was driven to his demise by the contradictions in his own personality and the vacillation of the British government.
		Eminent Victorians is a landmark book not only because it punctured many of the pretensions and conceit of the Victorian Era, but because it signaled a new trend in the writing of biography, the influence of which is still discernible today.
	www.enotes.com /eminent-victorians (335 words)

	Preface. Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
		They are, in one sense, haphazard visions—that is to say, my choice of subjects has been determined by no desire to construct a system or to prove a theory, but by simple motives of convenience and of art.
		But, in the lives of an ecclesiastic, an educational authority, a woman of action, and a man of adventure, I have sought to examine and elucidate certain fragments of the truth which took my fancy and lay to my hand.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Eminent Victorians (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Lytton Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.
		In the preface of "Eminent Victorians" Lytton Stracheys affirms his contemporaries could not write the history of victorianism because they know it too much.
		"Eminent Victorians" is a challenging, compelling essay, all the more so as the life of each character is dealt with briefly, concision being for Strachey an essential quality for a biographer.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Eminent-Victorians-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192801589 (917 words)

	Eminent Victorians quiz -- free game
		Despite its later reputation as an age of solemnity, the Victorian age produced a remarkable outburst of humerous prose and verse.
		One typically Victorian speciality of humorous verse is to be found in the works of Edward Lear and lewis Carroll.
		The title of this quiz was taken from the book 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918 by an early modernist who didn't like Victorians at all.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=74366 (809 words)

	Amazon.com: Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: Lytton Strachey,Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame.
		Eminent Victorians has been on my `to read' list for about 20 yrs, and I'm so glad I finally got around to it.
		Regardless, Eminent Victorians is an enjoyable, entertaining, intellectual adventure that brings life to Victorian biography.
	www.amazon.com /Eminent-Victorians-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140183507 (3139 words)

	Cardinal Manning: Introduction. Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians
		His life was extraordinary in many ways, but its interest for the modern inquirer depends mainly upon two considerations—the light which his career throws upon the spirit of his age, and the psychological problems suggested by his inner history.
		He belonged to that class of eminent ecclesiastics—and it is by no means a small class—who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability.
		Had he lived in the Middle Ages he would certainly have been neither a Francis nor an Aquinas, but he might have been an Innocent.
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	Who's Afraid of Lytton Strachey? - New York Times
		Wilson, a prolific novelist and biographer, is content to illustrate the variety and vitality of assorted Victorians, and by extension the age that produced them.
		He was in every way himself a Victorian, a product of the era's high culture and the privilege granted some at great cost to the many.
		Strachey's ''Eminent Victorians'' is not a glib dismissal of Victorian values but a morally responsible protest against, among other things, the ease with which people are willing to compromise their humanity in the implacable pursuit of their self-interest.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DD113BF936A3575BC0A966958260 (626 words)

	Cult Choice : Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey - Hamish Hamilton
		Strachey's predecessors were, of course, Victorians: in his paradoxes, there are tinges of Oscar Wilde, in his aesthetic, of Walter Pater.
		Nowhere, in Eminent Victorians, will one find an argument supported by statistics, or an event explicable by anything other than 'the mysterous and relentless powers of circumstance and character'.
		The four eponymous Victorians are Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon - or, as Strachey puts it, 'an ecclesiastic, an educational authority, a woman of action, and a man of adventure'.
	www.hamishhamilton.co.uk /nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,214507_9_1,00.html (930 words)

	victorians and their plants and flowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Victorians were great collectors of new and exciting varieties that we now take for granted...
		The Victorians had to be discreet about expressing their feelings toward one another, as they were...
		The Victorian era - a period roughly encompassing the decades from 1830 to 1905 - displayed a great enthusiasm for all things botanical.
	www.flowers-universe.com /articles/36/victorians-and-their-plants-and-flowers.html (685 words)

	Victorians ebook ebooks (e-books) links US
		Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'.
		The Victorians were too morally earnest to see its meaning, while in our time critics have been too resolutely philosophical to grasp it.
		Victorians ebook ebooks (e-books) links US or references to the subject of victorians...
	www.hopcottebooks.com /ebooks/victorians.html (544 words)

	Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey - eBooks
		When it was published in 1918, Eminent Victorians became one of the first books to take apart the heroes of an earlier era.
		The literary biography, Eminent Victorians presents a bold imagining of four Victorian lives.
		It became the touchstone of modern biography, and established Lytton Strachey as a master prose stylist.
	ebookmall.com /alpha-titles/Eminent-Victorians-Strachey-Random-cr.htm (164 words)

	Books of The Times; An Appropriated Title, Revisionist Sentiments - New York Times
		When Lytton Strachey's ''Eminent Victorians'' was published in 1918, it seemed to crystallize the thinking of a defiant postwar generation.
		With Margaret Thatcher's rise to power, talk of a ''revival in Victorian values'' began to surface in England; and Victorian architecture, painting and even furnishings (just think of Laura Ashley!) are currently experiencing an astonishing vogue.
		And while the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron makes a fascinating study in eccentricity, she can hardly be considered eminent -at least in terms of the accomplishments of so many of her contemporaries.
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	From Eminent Victorians to The Daily Show: The Art of Biography « BlogLily
		Strachey’s subjects are four Victorian notables, people who accomplished remarkable things in their lives, and who were models of probity and seriousness.
		This is a description worthy of Mark Twain, who was a master of the deadpan moment at the end of a passage, and of the deployment of the rhetoric of seriousness to show just how utterly ridiculous a person or idea really was.
		(Eminent Victorians came out in 1918.) There are, of course, outposts of high mindedness that could do with a little infusion of wit: academic writing (and no, I’m not talking about our academic friends like litlove, dorothy, ms.
	bloglily.com /2006/12/08/from-eminent-victorians-to-the-daily-show-the-art-of-biography (2034 words)

	eminent - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Eminent Victorians - Preface
		HE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it.
		For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
		They are, in one sense, haphazard visions-- that is to say, my choice of subjects has been determined by no desire to construct a system or to prove a theory, but by simple motives of convenience and of art.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/biography/EminentVictorians/Chap0.html (810 words)

	Random House Trade \| Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
		Strachey's next work, Eminent Victorians (1918), caused a succès de scandale, establishing him as a leader of the reaction against the Victorians that followed World War I. "Lytton Strachey's chief mission.
		For his three famous books, Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth and Essex, are of a stature to show both what biography can do and what biography cannot do.
		The anger and the interest that his short studies of Eminent Victorians aroused showed that he was able to make Manning, Florence Nightingale, Gordon, and the rest live as they had not lived since they were actually in the flesh.
	www.randomhouse.com /randomhouse/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679640158 (766 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Lytton Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At the end of World War I, Strachey published "Eminent Victorians," a collection of short sketches of Victorian idols such as Florence Nightingale and Thomas Arnold.
		He was a debunker of myths who combined scholarly erudition with a new form of sensitivity to detail -- not vulgar detail (don't expect juicy scandal from Strachey), but the telling, personal detail that makes up the narrative of the interior.
		Strachey’s books, especially "Eminent Victorians," are full of judgements as well as historical examination.
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