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Thomas Hughes
(1822 - 1896)
Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 – March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Bibliography
The Scouring of the White Horse (1859)
A history of the White Horse of The White Horse Vale and of the maintenance of that venerable relic. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Tom Brown’s School Days (1896)
School days at Rugby by an old boy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Edmund J. Sullivan
Tom Brown’s School Days (1911)
One of the first English boarding school stories set at Rugby and written by an ‘old boy.’ The black and white illustrations are by Rhead, the color by Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Tom Brown’s School Days (1956)
A boarding school story set at Rugby, the famous British ‘public school,’ by a former student.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard