Out of the East
Blair Worden, 11 October 1990
The King’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
by Peter Gwyn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 666 pp., £20, May 1990,0 7126 2190 3 Show More
by Peter Gwyn.
Barrie and Jenkins, 666 pp., £20, May 1990,
Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
by John Morrill.
Longman, 300 pp., £17.95, May 1990,0 582 06064 8 Show More
by John Morrill.
Longman, 300 pp., £17.95, May 1990,
The Writings of William Walwyn
edited by Jack McMichael and Barbara Taft.
Georgia, 584 pp., $45, July 1989,0 8203 1017 4 Show More
edited by Jack McMichael and Barbara Taft.
Georgia, 584 pp., $45, July 1989,
“... Can historical biography still be written? Joel Hurstfield, who had planned a life of Robert Cecil, the chief minister inherited by James I from Queen Elizabeth, abandoned it in the 1960s in the belief that the genre had had its day. Geoffrey Elton, so much of whose career has been occupied with the achievements of Thomas Cromwell, has never thought biography to be the fitting means of approaching him ... ”
