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

Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey. It consists of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightinga

This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inve