From the passage we understand that as a biographer, Lytton Strachey was remarkable in his time for ____ .

In Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey portrays four
dominating personalities of the nineteenth century. He is,
noticeably, free of undue reverence for the great; indeed
his satirical view of life enables him to discover in them
many flaws which were discreetly overlooked by previous
historians. Perhaps his portrayal of General Gordon is the
most controversial of all. Certainly he was a gifted and
gallant soldier, but was he also an unbalanced mystic and
a self opinionated eccentric? His portrait of Dr Arnold is
also disturbing. Was he a wise and foreseeing
educationalist and headmaster or try sternly imposing his
will on the students in care? The questions thus raised are
intensely provocative and make reading stimulating.