She had always leant towards the Church of Rome, though after her marriage she did not conform to it.
He was probably under Mrs.Froude's influence when he wrote his Essay on the Philosophy of Catholicism in 1851, reprinted in the first series of Short Studies, which does not strike one as at all characteristic of him, and is certainly quite different from his noble discourse on the Book of Job, published two years later.

Mrs.
Froude never cared for London, and had always lived in the country.
After her death Froude took for the first time a London house, and settled himself with his children in the neighbourhood of Hyde Park.
Later in the same year died his publisher, John Parker the younger, of a painful and distressing illness, through which Froude nursed him with tender affection.

The elder Parker kept on the business, and brought out the remaining volumes of Froude's History.

His son had been editor of Fraser's Magazine, and in that position Froude succeeded him at the beginning of 1861.

He thus found a regular occupation besides his History.