Gretton's 1913 popular history of Britain, A Modern History of the English People, was originally published in 1913 and updated in 1930 to bring the history down to the fall of the
Lloyd George coalition government in 1922.
Virginia Woolf made twenty-three pages of notes on Gretton's book as part of her background reading for her 1937 novel The Years.[4]
From 14 June to 19 July 1929, Gretton delivered a series of broadcasts for
BBC radio on the subject of "Some Makers of Modern Politics", in which he explored various Victorian statesmen and their influence.[5]
Personal life
Gretton married
Mary Sturge, who died in
York on 15 August 1961, aged 90.[6]
Works
Ingram (London: Grant Richards, 1911).
Almayne of Mainfort (London: Grant Richards, 1912).
Imperialism and Mr. Gladstone, 1876–1887 (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1913).
The King's Majesty: A Study of the Growth of the Central Administration (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1913; second edition, 1930).
A Modern History of the English People (London: Grant Richards, 1913; second edition, 1930).
History (London: Secker, 1914).
A History of the English Middle Classes (London: Bell, 1917).
The Burford Records: A Study in Minor Town Government (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920).
The Ancient Remains of Oxford Castle (Oxford: Phipps & Co., 1925; second edition, 1935).