Eminent Victorians

by Giles Lytton Strachey

Overview

THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it,

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162696186
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	07/08/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	290 KB

About the Author

Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.