# Eminent Victorians

Author: Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932

Genre: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2447

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Eminent+Victorians+Strachey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was significant, but hardly surprising, that, after his illness, Manning should have chosen to recuperate in Rome. He spent several months there, and his Diary during the whole of that period is concerned entirely with detailed descriptions of churches, ceremonies, and relics, and with minute accounts of conversations with priests and nuns. There is not a single reference either to the objects of art or to the antiquities of the place; but another omission was still more remarkable. Manning had a long interview with Pius IX, and his only record of it is contained in the bald statement: 'Audience today at the Vatican'. Precisely what passed on that occasion never transpired; all that is...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/eminent-victorians-2447/chapters/1/index.md)