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Strachey’s Queen Victoria (1921) is not as satirical as Eminent Victorians, although there is much humor and comedy in the story of an ordinary woman called to great responsibilities.

Anthony Nutting’s biography, Gordon of Khartoum, Martyr and Misfit (1966), sees Gordon as motivated by a death-wish arising from his knowledge of his own homosexuality.

In Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel (1999), Hugh Small draws on new material and argues that Nightingale’s invalidism after the Crimean War was due to guilt—she realized that thousands...

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