Both Eminent Victorians (1918) and Queen Victoria: A Life (1921) are included in this illustrated edition.
Eminent Victorians contains four controversial essays, with each iconoclastic portrait advancing Lytton Strachey’s own idea that the biographer should ‘attack his subject in unexpected places’. Strachey was arguably the first to use Freudian insights in order to illuminate his subjects and to‘shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses’. With the highly regarded Queen Victoria: A Life, this illustrated edition allows the reader to appreciate Strachey’s significant contribution to the art of modern biographical writing.