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Title	:	Eminent Victorians
Author	:	Lytton Strachey
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 571 pages
Published	:	August 27th 1993 by Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group (first published 1918)
Categories	:	Biography. History. Nonfiction. Historical. Victorian. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

Hardcover | Pages: 571 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 2027 Users | 134 Reviews

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A wonderfully witty book that, a century ago, forever burst the bubble of glory that had up till then so reverently encased the shimmering Victorian Empire.

I read it as a young guy and laughed uproariously at its irreverence, delighting all the while in Strachey’s finely pointed prose.

To the bohemian denizens of London’s Bloomsbury District, Strachey’s oddly iconoclastic vantage point, his languid and world-weary witticisms and his immense mastery of his subject matter must have elevated him to urban myth status in their eyes.

He turned Oscar Wilde’s dandyism into a form of cackling self-caricature in his stovepipe hat and collar-length black beard, loping down London boulevards with a John Lennon grin.

He was too cool for rules.

And he’s not widely read now. Indeed, his cleverness was never an adjunct of substance.

Substance was the very balloon he wished to burst!

But wit doesn’t always pay the bills. And you don’t get into heaven on irreverence.

There has to be a middle ground in life, because extremes have no staying power. If you want to reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, you don’t go around with a chip on your shoulder.

Many of us who laughed with Strachey when young now see a far greater value in the middle way he mocked.

These upstanding Victorians he wrote about worked hard for their faith, and deserve our gratitude and respect, not our sneers.

No, for as F.R. Leavis said, we are all part of the milieu of the Great Tradition.

Even if we trash it.

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Original Title:	Eminent Victorians
ISBN:	0701160535 (ISBN13: 9780701160531)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, Charles George Gordon

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In one of the more famous take-downs in the history of biography, Lytton Strachey sets out to slay the sainted beast of a golden age in the persons of four representative figures, and he mostly succeeds. It may be hard for us to appreciate the feat at this distance (Eminent Victorians was published in 1918); the memory of that once-imposing Jabberwock the Victorian era is well faded. The fading itself, however, owes something to Strachey. The section on Cardinal Manning makes an irreverent

The choice of people that get a biography in this book is excellent although I have no idea whether the sample is representative. I found all of the stories very interesting, well written, witty and humorous. The preoccupation with religion that all subjects share, with the possible exception of Florence Nightingale, is amazing and interesting. All in all, a great read, especially for anyone interested in the "Victorian" period.

You think snark is something new? A freshly contemporary attitude? Read this, and refresh your recollection. In truth, Strachey's great book would be even better if it were a little less snarky: there's something of the class show-off in him; but it is an excellent book, nonetheless, and Stracey a great stylist. After this, read his Queen Victoria, then Michael Holyroyd's biography.

Lytton Strachey wrote about four of the 18th Century's "heroes". But he took off the blinders when he wrote. Bad tempers, arrogance, narcissism, and grandiose ideals are all included. The portrayed parties are not white-washed as they're done when fact turns into myth. This book was a best-seller AND a scandal when it was published in the early 1900's. Would be interesting to see what Strachey could have done with some of our major political characters! When done reading the book, go get the

I read this book years ago and am considering rereading it again. I loved so many books about the Bloomsbury Group and Lytton Strachey was a very unusual but highly gifted individual.

I read Eminent Victorians many years ago, but, as with almost very book Ive reread, Ive enjoyed it more the second time. Its partly, I think, that I have learnt more about how to read, particularly the long sentences, complexities, and extravagant rhetoric of Victorian writing. Im currently reading Thackerays Newcomes and Ruskins Unto This Last, both of which display the literary lusciousness Ive come to enjoy.I probably have also enjoyed the book more second time because Ive encountered more of

A friend recommended this, but it does drag on with religious minutae--not the narrative speed we expect today. Buried in there, some interesting debunking of myth about those eminent Victorians.