"I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood."

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Historians from EnglandNovelists from EnglandExistentialistsUniversity of Oxford facultyEditors from England
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On the writing of his novel The Nemesis of Faith (1849), in a letter to Charles Kingsley (New Year's Day 1849), as quoted in Rosemary Ashton, Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot (1989) and Herbert Paul, The Life of Froude (1905), p. 47