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 ...
Book Review: David Denby profiles 4 'eminent’ Jews who profoundly changed post-WWII American culture
When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his ...
W.W. Norton, 724 pp., $35 LYTTON STRACHEY thought the project impossible. In the preface to his 1926 “Eminent Victorians,” he declared that a complete history of the Victorians couldn’t be ...
THE LETTERS AND PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Volume I: 1817-1840; Volume II: 1841-1851 —Collected and Edited by Gordon N. Ray — Harvard University Press ($12.50). William Makepeace ...
When Alfred, Lord Tennyson first saw the photograph that his friend Julia Margaret Cameron took of him in May 1865, he joked that he looked like a “dirty monk.” After the portrait was exhibited, a ...
LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...
Book Review: David Denby profiles 4 ’eminent’ Jews who profoundly changed post-WWII American culture
This book cover image released by Henry Holt shows "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" by David Denby. (Henry Holt via AP) When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in ...
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