Resurrecting the Tudors
John Pemble: James Anthony Froude, 23 May 2013
James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet
by Ciaran Brady.
Oxford, 500 pp., £45, May 2013,978 0 19 966803 8 Show More
by Ciaran Brady.
Oxford, 500 pp., £45, May 2013,
“... wasn’t written by Hilary Mantel or Antonia Fraser. It was written more than 140 years ago by James Anthony Froude, whose History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada put the Tudor show on the road. That wasn’t Froude’s only legacy. His Life of Carlyle, published in 1885, inaugurated modern biography, biography with ... ”