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Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians

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Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 12 hours and 02 minutes

Language: English

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 upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.

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Preface and Cardinal Manning, Chapter 1 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 2 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 3 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 4 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 5 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 6 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 7 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 8 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 9 (Margaret Espaillat)
Cardinal Manning, Chapter 10 (Margaret Espaillat)
Florence Nightingale, Chapter 1 (Margaret Espaillat)
Florence Nightingale, Chapter 2 (Margaret Espaillat)
Florence Nightingale, Chapter 3 (Margaret Espaillat)
Florence Nightingale, Chapters 4 & 5 (Margaret Espaillat)
Dr. Arnold, Part 1 (Margaret Espaillat)
Dr. Arnold, Part 2 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 1 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 2 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 3 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 4 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 5 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 6 (Margaret Espaillat)
The End of General Gordon, Part 7 (Margaret Espaillat)
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