The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.


Preface. - Eminent Victorians (1918)

Lytton Strachey Quotes

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian –...

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian –...

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian –...

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian –...