Froude was one of the principal players in the field of fluid dynamics. Born in Dartington, England, he was educated at Oxford, where he received a degree in engineering. His first job was as a civil engineer, working for the British railway system. It...

J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian. By Julia Markus (New York, Scribner, 2005); pp. 340; US$30.00 hb. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), historian and man of letters, suffered injustice in his life. From the tender age of two, the sickly child...

The reception of Goethe's novel 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften' ('Elective Affinities') in 19th-century Britain is discussed, with a focus on the work of James Anthony Froude. Froude's 1849 novel 'The Nemesis of Faith,' based on Goethe's work, was publicly burnt at Oxford in 1849; Froude's translation...