Volume 20, Number 18 · November 15, 1973
Rugged Outcast
By Blair Worden
Cromwell: The Lord Protector
by Antonia Fraser
Knopf, 774 pp., $12.50
Cromwell: A Profile
edited by Ivan Roots
Hill and Wang (World Profiles series), 237 pp., $3.65 (paper)
Antonia Fraser's enormous biography succeeds in what I take to be its aim: it can be read with pleasure and profit by almost anyone who can afford it, however well or ill acquainted with Cromwell's period. The pleasure might have been doubled, and the profit scarcely diminished, if the length had been halved; but even the most knowledgeable of seventeenth-century historians may feel awed by the thoroughness of Lady Antonia's research. Some of her source references are positively exotic.
Review, 2398 words
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