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James Anthony Froude.
English historian, novelist and biographer (1818–1894)
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About James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 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.
Everything about James Anthony Froude →- Occupation
- historian, translator, novelist, university teacher
- Position held
- Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 23, 1818, 1818
- Died
- October 20, 1894, 1894