Eminent VictoriansEminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey exposes the self seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale. In his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public school