Up until this point, as Strachey remarked in the preface, Victorian biographies had been "as familiar as the cortège of the undertaker", and wore the same air of "slow, funereal barbarism."
Kantos mangkin, sakadi sané kabaosng olih Strachey ring sajeroning purwakaning piuning, biografi Victoria pateh sakadi "pangusungan layon", miwah pateh nyihnayang gaya barbarism sané  "alon ri tatkala pakuburan."