The four biographies of Victorian figures that Strachey has described in Eminent Victorians are of Henry Cardinal Manning - a Roman Catholic prelate, Florence Nightingale -

a sentimentally idolized female humanitarian, Thomas Arnold of Rugby - an educational reformer with a pronounced moralistic bent and General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon - a military adventurer. All this figures had earlier been the subject of admiring biographies, but Strachey treated them instead in the form of caricatural case histories: Manning as an obsessive ecclesiastical opportunist, Florence Nightingale as a workaholic driven by ruthless devotion to duty, Arnold as a zealous pompous public-school head master who tended to confuse himself with God, and Gordon as a religious fanatic and dipsomaniac, alternating between Bible and brandy bottle. The four demonstrated the goals of the Victorian age but Strachey's presentation gave rise to a new form of biography and caused people to express their opposition to the Victorian period. In short, Strachey had four - victim agenda for misrepresenti

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