James Anthony Froude

Mark Nixon (University of Reading)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago)

Dates

Born 23 Apr 1818
Died 20 Oct 1894
Activity 1849-1894

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Born in England
Active in England

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James Froude was born in 1818 in Devon, the son of Robert Hurrell, archdeacon of Totnes. He was a brother of the Oxford divine Richard Hurrell Froude, a leading High Churchman and Tractarian; another brother, William, was a leading Victorian engineer. After study at Exeter College, he took orders in 1844 and seemed to be following his elder brother in religious matters, contributing to Newman's Lives of the Saints. However, apparently due to the study of Spinoza, he began to have religious doubts, particularly with respect to the visible church, changes which he announced in his novel The Nemesis of Faith (1849). This tells the story of a young man led astray by tractarianism and caused a scandal; Froude was forced to …

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Citation: Nixon, Mark. "James Anthony Froude". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 June 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4906, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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