Victorian virtues

Introduction

An English author and lawyer, Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was most famous for his novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). This semi-autobiographical work is set at Rugby School, which Hughes attended from 1834 to 1842. The novel didactically expounds the importance of physical development, boldness, fighting spirit and sociability, as well as Christian morality and idealism, through the adventures of its athletic, stubborn, but kind-hearted central character.

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