On 1 May 1937, the editors of the Times Literary Supplement used the occasion of the centenary of Victoria's accession and the coronation of her great-grandson George VI to celebrate "some of the literary accomplishments of the hundred years." James...

James Anthony Froude is best known as a controversial historian and the literary executor and biographer of Thomas Carlyle. He was also, however, an accomplished writer of fiction and editor of Fraser's Magazine for more than a dozen years. His...

James Anthony Froude, historian of the English Reformation, is also well known as the friend and biographer of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. In addition to the Carlyle volumes, in the last sixteen years of his life Froude wrote well-received...

The English historian James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) specialized in Reformation and Tudor studies. His work is characterized by vivid description and an orderly narrative style. James Froude was born in Dartington, Devon, on April 23, 1818. He was...