# Matthew Arnold — Queen Victoria character guide

> Matthew Arnold in Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0044-viii-gladstone-and-lord-beaconsfield

## Who they are

Poet and critic who wrote about Victoria's court.

## In the story

### [The Faery and the Prime Minister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/queen_victoria_se/chapters/iii)

Quoted as the recipient of Disraeli's remark about flattery: 'You have heard me called a flatterer... when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.'

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