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When Lytton Strachey posted Emininent Victorians, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking visitors and turned it upside-down. Four of the most eminent and idealized heroic information of the Victorian age emerged under his witty and unsparing gaze and surfaced, astonishingly enough, as human beings. His study of 1 of the most revered prelates in England, Cardinal Manning, unveils a profound and courageous religious mind combined with the conniving and ruthless soul of a created politician. His dissection of the life span of Florence Nightingale shows her both as the girl of the Lamp fixture and as a female of steely backbone and adamantine persistence, who not only looked after wounded and ill military with complete determination and solicitude, but who wreaked holy hell on any bureaucrat or governmental office that tried out to get in her way. When Strachey is completed with Dr. Arnold, we understand him as a revolutionary reformer of British education and since a first-rate prig. So when Strachey finishes leading us through the life span of General George Gordon, we come away having known him both as a guy of extraordinary courage and since a near-lunatic. Interesting, witty, insightful and provoking, these four biographical studies single-handedly revived the artwork of biography in the British language.
