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Lifetime: 1880 - 1932 Passed: ≈ 92 years ago

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Giles Lytton Strachey

Books by Giles Lytton Strachey

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Queen Victoria

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19th century Politics Biography Culture Society England Monarchy Queen Victorian era Victoria Historical Figure Royal Family British History Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians Strachey

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the...

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Eminent Victorians

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff...