STRACHEY, L.: Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

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Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2020.

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Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Eminent Victorians ( 05 min., 29 sec. )

Cardinal Manning ( 03 min., 03 sec. )

I ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

II ( 14 min., 17 sec. )

When Froude succeeded in impregnating Newman... ( 13 min., 52 sec. )

III ( 07 min., 37 sec. )

Among the letters of congratulation which Manning... ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

After leaving Naples, Newman visited Loreto... ( 08 min., 59 sec. )

Newman, in a kind of despair, had flung himself... ( 08 min., 21 sec. )

IV ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

At last he became convalescent; but the spiritual... ( 08 min., 56 sec. )

At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned... ( 13 min., 18 sec. )

V ( 11 min., 26 sec. )

The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time... ( 13 min., 24 sec. )

It was determined that the coalition should be ratified... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

VI ( 09 min., 17 sec. )

The years that followed showed to what extent it was... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

Such were Newman's thoughts when an unexpected... ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

The confederates matured their plans. While Newman... ( 07 min., 16 sec. )

VII ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

The Rome which Manning reached towards the close... ( 11 min., 25 sec. )

Two main issues, it soon appeared, were before them... ( 12 min., 48 sec. )

VIII ( 12 min., 44 sec. )

IX ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

X ( 13 min., 01 sec. )

Florence Nightingale ( 12 min., 58 sec. )

II ( 12 min., 44 sec. )

Miss Nightingale came, and she, at any rate, in that... ( 09 min., 27 sec. )

All at once, word came from the Crimea that a great... ( 10 min., 06 sec. )

At one time, during several weeks, her vituperations... ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

III ( 13 min., 21 sec. )

Of Miss Nightingale's friends, the most important... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

Two facts soon emerged, and all that followed turned... ( 08 min., 14 sec. )

Her wits began to turn, and there was no holding her. ( 06 min., 48 sec. )

Meanwhile, still ravenous for yet more and more work... ( 10 min., 17 sec. )

IV ( 06 min. )

With statesmen and governors at her beck and call... ( 14 min., 23 sec. )

V ( 06 min., 26 sec. )

Dr Arnold ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

From two sides this system of education was... ( 08 min., 56 sec. )

It was obvious that the primitive methods of discipline... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

At the end of the evening service, the culminating... ( 11 min., 48 sec. )

Dr Arnold waited in vain. But, he did not wait in idleness. ( 09 min., 50 sec. )

Once or twice he found time to visit the Continent... ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr Arnold... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

The end of General Gordon ( 12 min., 59 sec. )

In eighteen months, he told Li Hung Chang... ( 08 min., 23 sec. )

Gordon resigned his command; and it was only with... ( 11 min., 03 sec. )

His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential... ( 08 min., 38 sec. )

At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in... ( 14 min., 14 sec. )

There is an ancient tradition in the Mohammedan... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

El Obeid fell in January, 1883. Meanwhile, events of... ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

Meanwhile, not only the Government, but the public... ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

A few days later, it appeared that the conversation... ( 11 min., 22 sec. )

How, then, are we to explain the Government's action? ( 08 min., 23 sec. )

In Cairo, in spite of the hostilities of the past... ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

The original Sultans of the country had unfortunately... ( 09 min., 02 sec. )

The old statesman was now entering upon the... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

One of the last telegrams sent by Gordon before the... ( 07 min., 58 sec. )

On one side of him was a veering and vacillating... ( 13 min., 14 sec. )

Lord Hartington's conscience was of a piece with the... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

When Mr Gladstone read the words, he realised that... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

From the past, he turned to the future, and surveyed... ( 09 min., 20 sec. )

He spent long hours upon the palace roof, gazing... ( 13 min., 07 sec. )

The delay of the expedition was even more serious... ( 07 minutes, 26 sec. )

When the English force reached Metemmah... ( 09 minches, 32 sec. )

Participant:

Keeble, Jonathan, Reader -- Strachey, Lytton, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781983348

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Restricted for use by site license.