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Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and ... More

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From intimacy to bitter quarrels under the eyes of Burlegh, Bacon, Raleigh and other members of Court, Elizabeth I and Essex's story unfolds to its ... More

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Lytton Stracheys classic work Eminent Victorians was an assault on the Victorian Age and its values. For

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The late Lytton Strachey's biography of England's Queen Victoria is considered a classic. In richly detailed, sympathetic descriptions of Victoria's ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological ... More

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Florence Nightingale was a healer, a comforter, and a nurturer. But like all of us, she had a dark side. Because of her mystique and her charisma she ... More

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Lytton Strachey's classic work "Eminent Victorians" was an assault on the Victorian Age and its values. In choosing four key figures, Cardinal ... More

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Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological ... More

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A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's ... More

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Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of ... More

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Strachey's eccentric look at Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, and Dr. Arnold breathed new life into the art of biography when ... More

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Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionized the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to ... More

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The woman who ruled a nation and framed an Era. Alexandrina Victoria was conceived in a race between two disreputable, aging princes to beget an heir ... More

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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it." So wrote Lytton Strachey in 1922; but he added, "Human beings ... More

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