| Between pages z76 and I77 Mrs Pankhurst in about 1904akhurst being arrested near Buckingham Palace I914/Irs Pankhurst, Nurse Pine and detectives Mrs Pankhurst in New York, 1913 Between pages .908 and .9o9en.PowelI, Chief Scout of the world, aged eighty Stephe at CharterhouseBaden-Powell, aged twenty-six B-P on stage Betweenpages 240 and ~4z The submission of King PrempehB-P overwhelming an Ashanti warrior The hero of Mafeking Mafficking B-P tells a campfire yarn, 1908Xll Of all the details which scandalized respectable readers of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Fictorians possibly the most in- famous related to the venerable figure of Dr Arnold. The eminence of the celebrated Headmaster of Rugby School was surely beyond question. When his own son, William Arnold, first set eyes on the awesome vastness of the Hima- layas he was irresistibly 'reminded of Papa'. Yet Strachey attempted to cut the Doctor down to size not just meta- phorically but literally: 'his legs, perhaps, were shorter than they should have been.' Challenged, the biographer could produce no evidence for this slur. And Strachey latermischievously acknowledged that he had made Arnold'slegs shorter because he thought they should have been. Inmore serious vein, however, he claimed to have somewhereread an account which confirmed his diminution of theDoctor. In fact, though he relied entirely on publishedworks, Strachey's research had been surprisingly wide-ranging and it seems likely that he misappropriated thescurrilous detail from another imposing Victorian Head-master, E. W. Benson, later Archbishop of Canterbury,whose legs really were somewhat stunted. Be this as it may, Strachey clearly saw himself as one of |
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