维多利亚名人传
Eminent Victorians
Giles Lytton Strachey · 初版 1910 年
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“他选择作为全幅画像描绘对象的人，既非艺术家，也非具有独创天赋的天才，而是三男一女四位实干家——Cardinal Manning、Florence Nightingale、Dr Arnold以及General Gordon。但在这些全幅画像之余，他还简略勾勒了许多同代人的速写——如Gladstone、Sidney Herbert、Lord Hartington、Lord Acton和Lord Cromer；以及Keble、Clough、Newman和Cardinal Wiseman。”“全书构成了对维多利亚时代一幅饶有趣味的图景和尖锐辛辣的批评。”“他所关注的是人性，并且看穿了最……”
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…缓慢推动文明向前发展的那些天才火花，维多利亚时代的人可能是西方社会——甚至全世界——第一个将不懈的自我提升视为道德使命的群体。单在《Eminent Victorians》里，我们就能看到一位女性的传记：她几乎凭一己之力将护理业现代化，变成了我们今天所认知的“护理”，并且开创了统计学的新应用；还有关于…
…sparks of genius that slowly advanced civilization, the Victorians were maybe the first Western society - maybe anywhere - that devoted itself to relentless self-improvement as a moral imperative. In Eminent Victorians alone, we have the biography of the woman who almost single-handedly modernized nursing into what we can still recognize as "nursing" today, and pioneered new uses of statistics; and the biography of…
我读过《Eminent Victorians》，不过容我提个建议，里面描述的某些人物其实在《Tom Brown's Schooldays》和《Flashman》系列小说中展现得最为传神？小说不知为何总让人感觉离历史更近，可惜的是…
I have read "Eminent Victorians", but might I suggest that some of the people described there are best shown in "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and the "Flashman" novels? Novels always seem closer to history, somehow, and it's a shame that…