'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offered "not the history of kings and queens, but of the way ordinary people ha struggled to live throughout the centuries..." Hughes was one of those agitators who found a virtual Marxism in Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution inspired the hope that a popular revolt somewhere would end the war...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emrys Daniel Hughes Print: Book
?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicated about the man wh. I have not yet found a name for. I think that he is rather a coward & likes snarling from behind Carlyle?s back. Luckily I have not to review him!?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her diary becomes full of references to this, and to articles in the Times on subjects as diverse as Fortification and The War in New Zealand. She read, and was charmed by, Symington on architecture, sculpture, and painting ... Further books which she read included Froude's History of England ... The Bible and Modern Thought, Butler's Analogy, Memorials of Fox, Bancroft's American Revolution, Rollin's Ancient History, Waddington's Church History, the Works of Paley, Locke on the Human Understanding, and Mrs Jameson's Characteristics of Women."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Martindale Print: Book
Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishonest treatment of evidence in his "Henry": but the review notices tempted me at last; and I find "Elizabeth" extremely entertaining, - however provoking'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects. -- I mention this book with a certain reservation,
because, with all my admiration of Mr. Froude's talents, I certainly do not agree with him in
principle [...] "Calvinism" appears to me to be about anything but Calvinism. It is rather an
exposition of Mr. Froude's Protestant view of Christianity; but it is interesting and suggestive.
Several of the other essays are on the colonial policy of England, and will be chiefly attractive
to those who have colonial sympathies; but they are very clever.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to me a self-sentimentalist.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874):
'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched two or three scenes.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
1 December 1884, from Canford:
'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in
water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to
her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics
connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...]
Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now
amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:
'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep and interesting subject of study in Newman's work on the "Soul." Have you read this work? It is daring — it may be mistaken — but it is pure and elevated. Froude's "Nemesis of Faith" I did not like; I thought it morbid; yet in its pages, too, are found sprinklings of truth.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
'Mummy...read them a lecture of Froude's on the conduct of boys, at breakfast. The
contrast between what Froude thought boys ought to be, and what boys are, called
forth another lecture from Mother.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Lytton Print: Book