The Life and Times of Thomas Beckett. The controversy, in 11 articles between J.A. Froude, English historian, novelist, and biographer, and Edward A. Freeman, English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician. The COMPLETE 6 ARTICLE SERIES, Life and Times of Thomas Beckett by Froude, published in the Nineteenth Century Magazine during 1877, plus A Few Words on Mr Feeman, by Froude, 1879 TOGETHER WITH Mr. Froude's Life & Times of Thomas Beckett, a critical series of four articles by Freeman (NOTE: ONLY PARTS 2, 3, & 4 OF THIS SERIES ARE PRESENT), published in the Contemporary Review between 1878-79, plus Last Words on Mr. Froude by Freeman. TOGETHER WITH Mr Froude and S. Thomas of Canterbury by Anne Hope, from the Dublin Review, 1878. In total this collection consists of 12 articles.
London: Henry S. King, 1877. First Edition. Disbound. James Anthony Froude FRSE, 1818-1894 was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith..... More