Timeline
Lifetime:
1880 -
1932
Passed: ≈
92 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Giles Lytton Strachey
Books by Giles Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria
History
Non-Fiction
Biography
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...
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...