Freston Tower: A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Freston Tower: A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Cobbold, Richard (1797–1877).
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"Freston Tower : A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey" by Richard Cobbold is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. Centered on the Suffolk landmark of Freston Tower and the early life of Thomas Wolsey, it blends local history with a moral meditation on ambition, learning, and piety. The narrative follows young Wolsey, his patrons Lord De Freston and the gifted Ellen De Freston, and the Oxford scholar William Latimer, as scholarship, friendship, and nascent reformist ideas intersect along the River Orwell. The opening of the work presents Wolsey as a brilliant, ambitious youth reading Homer on the Orwell’s shore, then welcomed to De Freston’s castle to meet Latimer and Ellen. Latimer unveils the plan of Freston Tower—six ascending rooms dedicated to charity, needlework, music, painting, literature, and astronomy—to shape Ellen’s studies, and the trio share vigorous talk on books, politics, and religion amid unease with Richard III and growing interest in scriptural truth. Scenes in the baron’s hall show the household’s order and the retainers’ speculation about Ellen’s suitors, while a river excursion to Ipswich features a poignant episode of a mother dolphin following her wounded young, which deeply moves Ellen. The party lands at St. Peter’s Priory, leaves the boatmen with hospitable monks, and proceeds toward Edmund Daundy’s house, their purpose plainly to secure support and permission for Wolsey’s hoped‑for return to Oxford.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Freston Tower: A tale of the times of Cardinal Wolsey
- Author credits: Cobbold, Richard (1797–1877)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Historical fiction
- Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530 -- Fiction
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Historical Novels
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