Thomas Hughes Quotes


Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.


Citations

Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown's School Days. Macmillan & Co., 1857.

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Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes
  • Born: October 20, 1822
  • Died: March 22, 1896
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Lawyer, Writer, Reformer

Thomas Hughes QC was an English lawyer, judge, politician 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).