Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated...
The Juvenilia Press
produced in 2002 an edition of Incidents from Phippy's Schooldays, PL
's mock boys'-school story (hard to date, but evidently written in the later 1930s during the rise of the Fascists
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20 October 1822: Thomas Hughes, novelist, was born at Uffington...
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20 October 1822
Thomas Hughes
, novelist, was born at Uffington near Faringdon, Berkshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163
24 April 1857: Thomas Hughes published his highly successful...
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24 April 1857
Thomas Hughes
published his highly successful boys' story, Tom Brown's Schooldays, under the pseudonym An Old Boy.
Mack, Edward Clarence, and Walter Harry Green Armytage. Thomas Hughes; The Life of the Author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Benn, 1952.
89
1858: F. W. Farrar, at that time a master at Harrow...
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1858
F. W. Farrar
, at that time a master at Harrow School
, published Eric, or Little by Little, a more Evangelical rival to Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
, issued the previous year.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Bosh”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 36-8.
36, 38
22 March 1896: Thomas Hughes, novelist, died at Brighton,...
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22 March 1896
Thomas Hughes
, novelist, died at Brighton, East Sussex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.