Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932)

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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
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  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 2
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  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 3
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  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 4
    – 00:33:05
  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 5
    – 00:37:15
  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 6
    – 00:37:20
  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 7
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  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 8
    – 00:13:32
  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 9
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  • Cardinal Manning, Chapter 10
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  • Florence Nightingale, Chapter 1
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  • Florence Nightingale, Chapter 2
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  • Florence Nightingale, Chapter 3
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  • Florence Nightingale, Chapters 4 & 5
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  • Dr. Arnold, Part 1
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  • Dr. Arnold, Part 2
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  • The End of General Gordon, Part 1
    – 00:34:37
  • The End of General Gordon, Part 2
    – 00:28:41
  • The End of General Gordon, Part 3
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  • The End of General Gordon, Part 4
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  • The End of General Gordon, Part 5
    – 00:35:11
  • The End of General Gordon, Part 6
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  • The End of General Gordon, Part 7
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