Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey

Bringing great controversy with it when it was published in 1847, Wuthering Heights achieved considerable success by rendering many masked, unresolved issues of the time novel was written apparent. The storyline revolves around the narration of...

Strachey, in ‘Eminent Victorians’ reflects on the character of infamous historical heroine Florence Nightingale to cast the past lives of ordinary citizens, primarily women, as unsatisfactory and unfulfilling, and through this negative depiction...