James Anthony Froude was an English historian and miscellaneous writer. He was born in 1818 at Totness, Devon and died in 1894. He was educated at Oxford, was elected fellow of Exeter College, and received deacon's orders. He resigned his fellowship and withdrew from orders on the publication of his Nemesis of Faith, 1848.
Between the years 1856 and 1869 appeared his great work The History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, which was very popular, though it received but doubtful approval from historians. He was for some time editor of Fraser's Magazine, to which he contributed many articles, as well as to other periodicals. He was elected rector of St. Andrews University in 1869; travelled in the United States in 1874; and visited the Cape Colony on a political mission, between 1874 and 1875.
He was made literary executor to Carlyle, and his Life of Carlyle, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, and Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, as edited by him, provoked an extraordinary amount of interest and controversy. Among his other works are Short Studies on Great Subjects; English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century; Julius Caesar; Oceana, or England and her Colonies; The English in the West Indies, etc. Research James Froude
The Erinys or Furiae also called Dirae, Eumenides, or Semnae - that is, the ' revered' goddesses - were, in Greek mythology, daughters of Night, or, according to another myth, of the Earth and Darkness, while a third account calls them offspring of Cronos and Eurynome. They were attendants of Hades and Persephone, and lived at the entrance to the lower world. Their first duty was to see to the punishment of those of the departed who, having been guilty of some crime on earth, had come down to the shades without obtaining atonement from the gods. At the command of the higher gods, sometimes of Nemesis, they appeared on earth pursuing criminals. Nothing escaped their sharp eyes as they followed the evil-doer with speed and fury, permitting him no rest. Research Erinys
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