Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27
In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,” he wrote. In this spirit Strachey embarked on a quest to write a multi-person critical biography of the figures he considered the most Victorian of the Victorians, the ones who embodied most completely the ethos and legacy Strachey despised. The book he wrote was Eminent Victorians, still considered a landmark classic of the genre.
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