My hazy recollection of Eminent Victorians is that the tone was a little meaner- Florence Nightingale working her assistants to exhaustion, the foolishly earnes

My hazy recollection of Eminent Victorians is that the tone was a little meaner- Florence Nightingale working her assistants to exhaustion, the foolishly earnest priest grappling with the soul of Anglicanism- people too crazed and earnest for this world.