Eminent Victorians (1918) (edit title/settings)

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• Thomas Arnold: Liberal educator and historian
• Evelyn Baring: statesman, diplomat, and colonial administrator
• Li Hung Chang: Chinese general who ended several major rebellions, and a leading statesman of the late Qing Empire
• Arthur Hugh Clough: assistant to Florence Nightingale
• Charles Dilke: Liberal and reformist politician
• Richard Hurrell Froude: priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement
• William Ewart Gladstone: Liberal Party statesman and four-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Charles George Gordon: army officer and administrator remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa
• Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire: Known as the Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, he was leader of the Liberal Party from 1875 until 1880.
• Sidney Herbert: statesman
• Benjamin Jowett: classicist, theologian, and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• John Keble: churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement, gave his name to Keble College, Oxford
• Henry Edward Manning: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal
• Mahommed Ahmed: Sufi sheikh in Sudan who proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith
• John Henry Newman: Roman Catholic Cardinal, a convert from Anglicanism
• Florence Nightingale: nurse and reformist
• Lord Panmure: politician known as “The Bison”
• Edward Bouverie Pusey: churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford, a leader of the Oxford Movement
• Andrew Smith: of the British Army Medical Department
• Monsignor Talbot: private secretary of the Pope
• Queen Victoria: last Hanoverian ruler of England
• William George Ward: Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician
• Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman: Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Garnet Wolseley: army officer
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• Dr. Errington
• Peter
• Mr. Macdonald
• Mr. Stead
• Hicks
• Mr. Gorham
• Stewart
• Samuel Baker
• Dr. Hall
• Mr. Barnes
• Pope
• Dr. Cullen
• Dr. Sutherland
• Robert Wilberforce
• Gerald Graham
• Granville

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• “During the first eight years of their married life, she bore him six children; and four more were to follow. In this large and growing domestic circle his hours of relaxation were spent.”

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• Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past.

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• Arthur Clough, the poet, went through an experience which was more distressing in those days than it has since become; they lost their faith. With this difference, however, that while in Froude’s case the loss of his faith turned out to be rather like the loss of a heavy portmanteau, which one afterwards discovers to have been full of old rags and

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• “This is all, and indeed rather more than all, that is known to men of the blessed St. Neot; but not more than is known to the angels in heaven.”

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• He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity.

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• The Church of England bore everywhere upon it the signs of human imperfection; it was the outcome of revolution and of compromise, of the exigencies of politicians and the caprices of princes, of the prejudices of theologians and the necessities of the State.

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• 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.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Sudan
• England
• Khartoum
• Rome
• Egypt
• Scutari
• London
• Cairo
• Crimea
• Vatican
• Equatoria
• Oxford
• Birmingham
• Providence
• India
• China
• Darfour
• Shanghai
• Paris
• Congo
• Pio Nono
• Europe
• France
• Trebizond
• South Street
• Heaven
• Kordofan
• Naples
• Mandi
• Sebastopol
• Germany
• Italy
• St. John
• Lord Stratford
• Brussels

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Preceded by The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and followed by The Color Purple.

Preceded by The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, and followed by Go Tell It on the Mountain.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lytton Strachey (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 920.042

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › British
• Books › History › World

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• Project Gutenberg: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: Full text available online or in all major eBook formats.