Claim: James Anthony Froude is wrongly remembered to have drawn the ire of no liberals when history was published, the work was a popular success, and he became the most famous living historian in England.
Evidence: As a result, when the first volumes of Froude's history were published in 1856 they drew the ire of liberals (who felt that Froude's depiction of Henry VIII celebrated despotism) and Oxford High Churchmen (who opposed his position on the Church); this hostility was expressed in reviews from the Christian Remembrancer and the Edinburgh Review.