| Eminent Victorians Contributor(s): Strachey, Lytton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515084590 ISBN-13: 9781515084594 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eminent Victorians is a English biography collection by Lytton Strachey featuring the following biographical sketches: Cardinal Manning -- Florence Nightingale -- Dr. Arnold -- The end of General Gordon. THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. |