The second subject is depicted harshly in the senility of her older life and her Order of Merit is trivialized.
The author says of his first subject in this work, that in the Middle Ages he would have been neither a Francis nor an Aquinas, but he might have been an Innocent. The second subject is depicted harshly in the senility of her older life and her Order of Merit is trivialized. More bias is obvious in the harsh treatment also given to the father of the British public school system, Dr. Thomas Arnold, the third of four portraits. At the time these critical looks at the Cardinal Manning, General Charles Gordon, and Florence Nightingale were quite controversial. FTP, name this biographical work, the best-known of Lytton Strachey.
The author says of his first subject in this work, that in the Middle Ages he would have been neither a Francis nor an Aquinas, but he might have been an Innocent.
{Eminent Victorians}