Quotes from Lytton Strachey's books, and about them
Eminent Victorians on Regeneration: “My brother has just published a book called "Regeneration", which all my friends are reading and highly extolling; it has a very contrary effect to what he would desire on my mind.”
Eminent Victorians on The History of England: “a child who, at the age of three, had been presented by his father, as a reward for proficiency in his studies, with the twenty-four volumes of Smollett's History of England?”
Eminent Victorians on Das Leben Jesu: “Dr. Arnold, who had held up to scorn and execration Strauss's Leben Jesu without reading it.”
Eminent Victorians on Scripture Promises: “next morning, every member of the Cabinet would receive a copy of Dr. Samuel Clarke's Scripture Promises.”
Eminent Victorians on Tracts for the Times: “Then the Tracts for the Times were started under Newman's editorship, and the Movement was launched upon the world.”
Eminent Victorians on Vie de Jesus: “That the mellifluous author of the Vie de Jesus should have determined to end his days in the depths of Africa”
Eminent Victorians on Notes on Nursing: “The author of "Notes on Nursing"--that classical compendium of the besetting sins of the sisterhood, drawn up with the detailed acrimony, the vindictive relish, of a Swift--now spent long hours in composing sympathetic Addresses to Probationers, whom she petted and wept over in turn.”
Eminent Victorians on Robinson Crusoe: “He drew up elaborate tables, after the manner of Robinson Crusoe, with the reasons for and against his acceptance of the post:”
Eminent Victorians on A Commentary on the Whole Bible: “he eagerly perused the Priceless Diamond, Scott's Commentaries, and The Remains of the Rev. R. McCheyne. 'No novels or worldly books,' he wrote to his sister, 'come up to the Commentaries of Scott”