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Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

  • Release Date: 24th Aug 2020
  • Catalogue No: NA0474
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

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Contents

Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: SNK Studios, London, UK

Eminent Victorians

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Cardinal Manning

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I

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II

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When Froude succeeded in impregnating Newman…

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III

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Among the letters of congratulation which Manning…

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After leaving Naples, Newman visited Loreto…

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Newman, in a kind of despair, had flung himself…

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IV

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At last he became convalescent; but the spiritual…

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At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned…

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V

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The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time…

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It was determined that the coalition should be ratified…

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VI

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The years that followed showed to what extent it was…

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Such were Newman's thoughts when an unexpected…

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The confederates matured their plans. While Newman…

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VII

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The Rome which Manning reached towards the close…

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Two main issues, it soon appeared, were before them…

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VIII

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IX

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X

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Florence Nightingale

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II

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Miss Nightingale came, and she, at any rate, in that…

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All at once, word came from the Crimea that a great…

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At one time, during several weeks, her vituperations…

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III

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Of Miss Nightingale's friends, the most important…

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Two facts soon emerged, and all that followed turned…

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Her wits began to turn, and there was no holding her.

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Meanwhile, still ravenous for yet more and more work…

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IV

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With statesmen and governors at her beck and call…

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V

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Dr Arnold

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From two sides this system of education was…

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It was obvious that the primitive methods of discipline…

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At the end of the evening service, the culminating…

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Dr Arnold waited in vain. But, he did not wait in idleness.

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Once or twice he found time to visit the Continent…

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In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr Arnold…

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The end of General Gordon

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In eighteen months, he told Li Hung Chang…

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Gordon resigned his command; and it was only with…

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His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential…

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At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in…

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There is an ancient tradition in the Mohammedan…

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El Obeid fell in January, 1883. Meanwhile, events of…

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Meanwhile, not only the Government, but the public…

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A few days later, it appeared that the conversation…

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How, then, are we to explain the Government's action?

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In Cairo, in spite of the hostilities of the past…

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The original Sultans of the country had unfortunately…

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The old statesman was now entering upon the…

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One of the last telegrams sent by Gordon before the…

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On one side of him was a veering and vacillating…

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Lord Hartington's conscience was of a piece with the…

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When Mr Gladstone read the words, he realised that…

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From the past, he turned to the future, and surveyed…

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He spent long hours upon the palace roof, gazing…

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The delay of the expedition was even more serious…

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When the English force reached Metemmah…

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