Complete Essays Biography & History

An English historian, novelist, biographer. 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical, earning him a number of outspoken opponents.

Contents
Bunyan (1880)
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. (1872)
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III. (1872)
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century (1896)
Essays in Literature and History (1906)
Caesar: A Sketch
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) (1909)
The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon (1891)
The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses (1888)
Short Studies on Great Subjects (1867)
The Reign of Mary Tudor
The Earl of Beaconsfield (1890)
Froudacity (1889)

The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses -
My purpose in writing this book is so fully explained in the book itself that a Preface is unnecessary. I visited the West India Islands in order to increase my acquaintance with the condition of the British Colonies. I have related what I saw and what I heard, with the general impressions which I was led to form.

The Reign of Mary Tudor-
he memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes.

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