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The biographer and essayist Lytton Strachey died in 1932. Here, to mark the seventieth anniversary of his death, is the first critical edition of his most famous work. For this new edition, the text of Eminent Victorians is printed in its entirety along with new critical afterwords by four experts, reassessing Strachey's judgements on his subjects and presenting each one in a fresh light. David Newsome writes on Cardinal Manning; Mark Bostridge on Florence Nightingale; Terence Copley on Dr. Arnold; and John Pollock on General Gordon. Textual notes and illustrations from the original manuscript are included, together with previously unpublished photographs.