STRACHEY, LYTTON — Eminent Victorians : The Illustrated Edition

London, Bloomsbury. 1988, First Thus. (ISBN: 0747502188) Hardcover. Book, 'First published in [it] revolutionized modern biography. Lytton Strachey's barbed prose removed the Victorians from their pedasals, reveadlng them as flawed ans sometime sunattreactive human beings. The lives of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold and General Gordon provided Strachey with rich material from which to shape his elegant, sceptical essays. The many illustrations in this new edition . have been chosen to complement a text which remains as fresh, funny and enjoyable as when it was first written." 192p. New/New.