Hughes, Thomas 19th Century British World Literature

Hughes, Thomas 19th Century British World Literature

Hughes, Thomas

Author best remembered for 'Tom Brown's Schooldays,' published in 1857. Later in his life he founded the community of Rugby in Tennessee, USA, to be a cooperative, class-free society where Britain's younger sons of gentry could build a new community through agriculture, temperance and high Christian principles.

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- Short biography, focusing particularly on his support for idealistic initiatives in the United States.
- Descriptions of the game of rugby from the pages of the book about life at Rugby School in the 1830s.
- Online text of Thomas Hughes' novel.

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