author
Thomas Longueville
1844–1922
A Victorian writer with a sharp eye for the past, he turned seventeenth-century lives and scandals into lively narrative history. His books range from serious biographies to fiction, but he is best remembered for bringing earlier English history to life.
3 Audiobooks
The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants
by Thomas Longueville
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Century
by Thomas Longueville
The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
by Thomas Longueville
About the author
Thomas Longueville was an English author born in 1844 and died in 1922. Records connected with Oswestry in Shropshire place him in that area, and surviving library and archive catalogues show a long career in writing and historical research.
His work often focused on figures and episodes from the seventeenth century. Among the books attributed to him are A Life of Archbishop Laud, The Life of a Conspirator about Sir Everard Digby, Falklands, The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby, Marshall Turenne, and Pryings among Private Papers. These titles suggest a writer drawn to biography, politics, religion, and the drama of earlier centuries.
He also published fiction, including The Life of a Prig, The Prigment, and A Romance of the Recusants. That mix of novels and historical studies gives his writing a distinctive feel: scholarly in subject, but often shaped by a storyteller’s sense of character and incident.