Thomas Hughes

Graeme Davis (University of Buckingham)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

Born 20 Oct 1822
Died 22 Mar 1896
Activity 1842-1896

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Born in England
Active in England

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Biographer
Novelist
Religious writer

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Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) is remembered today for his novel

Tom Brown’s Schooldays

(1857). His many roles include lawyer, Queen’s Counsel, judge, Member of Parliament, social and educational reformer, founder of a utopian colony in Tennessee USA, and writer.

Hughes was born 20th October 1822 and grew up in the village of Uffington, then in the English county of Berkshire (now assigned to Oxfordshire). He was son of the squire John Hughes (himself a minor author, of The Boscobel Tracts, 1830, which told of the flight of king Charles II after the battle of Worcester) and grandson of the vicar Thomas Hughes, and was therefore of a family of minor gentry. Hughes later wrote several times about the vicinity of Uffington, the Vale of the White Horse, including in the opening three chapters

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Citation: Davis, Graeme. "Thomas Hughes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 May 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2248, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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