[Vwoolf] The influence of Lytton Strachey

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“And the anger and the interest that his
short studies of Eminent Victorians aroused showed that he was able
to make Manning, Florence Nightingale, Gordon, and the rest live as
they had not lived since they were actually in the flesh. Once more
they were the centre of a buzz of discussion. Did Gordon really drink,
or was that an invention?” (E6 183)

“The atmosphere of the church was personal.  The stained glass windows, with their series of ‘Modern Saints,’ such as Florence Nightingale, Father Damien, and General Gordon – the last of whom was figured pursuing the heathen Chinee in the sacred cause of opium, with no weapon in his hand but a cane, while round his head was an irregular halo of thick white and green glass that successfully, but quite unintentionally, communicated the idea to the initiated of a nimbus of broken whisky bottles – were most pretty and uncommon.”
(Osbert Sitwell, “Before the Bombardment” (Duckworth, 1926, p. 180)

Stuart
(Day 223)

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