When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...
Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, was the first and certainly one of the most influential of twentieth-century attacks on Victorian morality. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, ...
THE GIRL WITH THE SWANSDOWN SEAT (263 pp.)—Cyril Pearl—Bobbs-Merrill ($3.95). It seems that more things went on behind Queen Victoria’s billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons ...