Although Newman's memoir is alone ...
Although Newman's memoir is alone one of many Victorian autobiographies, a "genre" that has received a great deal critical attention (Amigoni, Victorian; Newey and Shaw), single in kind should remember the specific intellectual, flat metaphysical, context in which the Apologia was published. In the January 1864 issue of Macmillan's Magazine, the reformer novelist Charles Kingsley, Regius Professor of fresh History at Cambridge since 1860 wrote a review of the seventh and eighth books of J. A. Froude's History of England (published in twelve turns between 1858 and 1870), in which he
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