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Thomas Hughes
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20 October 1822 - 22 March 1896
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English writer. Novelist, publicist, memoirist. Together with his older brother George (whom he later dedicated to the book "Memories of a Brother", 1873) he studied at Rugby, one of the oldest male privileged private secondary schools in England, led by Thomas Arnold (an outstanding historian and educator known as "Arnold of Rugby"; introduced a fundamentally new system of education for private schools; the son of T. Arnold was the famous writer and critic Matthew Arnold), then at Oriel College
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English writer. Novelist, publicist, memoirist. Together with his older brother George (whom he later dedicated to the book "Memories of a Brother", 1873) he studied at Rugby, one of the oldest male privileged private secondary schools in England, led by Thomas Arnold (an outstanding historian and educator known as "Arnold of Rugby"; introduced a fundamentally new system of education for private schools; the son of T. Arnold was the famous writer and critic Matthew Arnold), then at Oriel College of Oxford University. His first book, The School Years of Tom Brown, was written in 1857. The novel was partly autobiographical in nature and became the first work in English literature, which described the daily life of an ordinary English school. The publication of the novel, written in a lively and fascinating manner, was accompanied by a noisy success (by 1890 only in England there were about fifty of its reprints). Leading his hero through life further (or rather, continuing to fix his own path), Hughes wrote a continuation of his story - the novel Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). A man of high Christian morality, Hughes, who had a special interest in America since his childhood, wrote several books of an abolitionist orientation, protesting against the slavery of Negroes, in which he saw one of the extreme forms of oppression of the human person.