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|title=Eminent Elizabethans

|author=Piers Brendon

|publisher=Vintage

|date=September 2013

|summary=In the tradition of Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', a quartet of critical mini-biographies of four major personalities of our time - Rupert Mudroch, the Prince of Wales, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger

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''Eminent Elizabethans'' is in effect a descendant of the author’s ''Eminent Edwardians''. The latter, a volume of short biographies of four British iconic figures of the early twentieth century, was in turn inspired by Lytton Strachey’s barbed 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918, a debunking of four Victorian heroes whom the iconoclast Strachey wished to demonstrate had feet of clay.