James Anthony Froude

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Standard Name: Froude, James Anthony
Used Form: J. A. Froude

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Mary Augusta Ward
Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
229
shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
While in Oxford ST occasionally attended lectures (including those of James Anthony Froude and Edward Augustus Freeman ), commemorations, and boat races. She met several women in charge of the Oxford women's colleges: Madeleine Shaw Lefevre
Publishing Sarah Tytler
ST found in J. A. Froude of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
He had ties to writers Anne Ogle , Mary Louisa Molesworth , Ouida , and Mathilde Blind . His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle , James Anthony Froude
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Oliphant
The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude 's life of Thomas Carlyle .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
256
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet.
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press.
299
Mary Howitt came to regret her contribution to the most awful book that...
Friends, Associates Eliza Lynn Linton
She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude , writer; Jane, Lady Franklin (widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own...
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kingsley
Several of FK 's sisters married prominent figures. Charlotte Maria married historian James Anthony Froude (FK introduced the couple when Froude visited her husband Charles Kingsley at Ilfracombe in Devon), and Marianne married...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter
Publishing Geraldine Jewsbury
In January 1850 GJ published a controversial article entitled Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism in the radical Westminster Review.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
This details recent writing by critics of Christianity such as Thomas Carlyle and J. A. Froude
Textual Features Geraldine Jewsbury
Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
223-4
Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
72
Beginning in...
Friends, Associates Jean Ingelow
JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...
Friends, Associates Augusta Gregory
With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria , Heinrich Schliemann , and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle...
Friends, Associates George Eliot
Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning , Frederic Leighton , Clara Schumann , Alfred Tennyson , Dean Stanley , J. A. Froude

Timeline

1849: J. A. Froude, writing as Zeta published his...

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1849

J. A. Froude , writing as Zeta published his novelThe Nemesis of Faith.

1856: J. A. Froude published the first volumes...

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1856

J. A. Froude published the first volumes of his influential twelve-volume History of England from the Death of Cardinal Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada; it was completed in 1870.

November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...

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November 1860

Thomas Hill Green became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College .

21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...

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21 April 1869

The Metaphysical Society was founded; women were excluded.

1888: J. A. Froude published his influential and...

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1888

J. A. Froude published his influential and imperialist The English in the West Indies.

Texts

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Froude, James Anthony. “Review of Harriet Martineau’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development</span&gt”;. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol.
43
, p. 418.