Eminent Victorians. By Lytton Strachey. Audiobook

Eminent Victorians. By Lytton Strachey. Audiobook Eminent Victorians is a collection of four short biographies written by Lytton Strachey in 1918. The book is a satirical take on the lives of four famous Victorians, focusing on only the most important aspects of each life. The biographies are hardly exhaustive but provide a unique perspective on the lives of these famous Victorians. The first biography is about Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, which Strachey writes against the Oxford movement, a time of upheaval in the Church of England. The Church of England had become complacent. A group of young men decided to “rescue” the Church from the trappings of Protestantism and secularism, sparking off the Oxford movement back to the rigors of a more traditional form of Christianity. Manning, then a young rector, was persuaded by these arguments. He later repudiated these beliefs and the friends attached to them when it became evident that the only way to return to the roots of the Church was a return to Ca