Biography

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

Four short lives, of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold of Rugby and General Gordon, written in 1918 with an irreverence the Victorians would not have allowed. Strachey changed biography by choosing what to leave out. Nightingale comes off best, and not as a lady with a lamp.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 6 hr 35 min

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2447. In the public domain in the United States.