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New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner and Company, 1870. Presumed Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fair. xii, 495, [11] pages. Some pages loose, but present. Some page browning. Some pages have edge chipping. While this is the second volume on the Reign of Elizabeth, it is also the VIII volume in the author's twelve volume History of England. This volume begins with Ireland under Queen Mary, and ends with the scene in Plymouth Harbour and the last Protest of the Spanish Ambassador. James Anthony Froude FRSE (23 April 1818 - 20 October 1894) 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… Leer más