Who wrote Tom Brown's Schooldays?
"Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown is a fictional character created by author Thomas Hughes in his work ""Tom Brown's School Days"" (1857) which is set at a real English public school — Rugby School for Boys — in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a pupil there. Tom Brown is based on the author's brother, George Hughes, and George Arthur is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. In ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", Tom Brown attends Rugby School after an epidemic means that he is unable to attend his local school in Berkshire. At Rugby, he befriends Harry ""Scud"" East, a slightly-senior"
"Tom Brown's School Days (1940 film) Tom Brown's School Days is a 1940 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage boy's experiences at Rugby School, Warwickshire in the early 19th century under the reforming headmastership of Thomas Arnold. It stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew and Jimmy Lydon in the title role. The film was based on the 1857 novel ""Tom Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes. In this version, emphasis is placed on the development of Headmaster Thomas Arnold and his reformist ideas concerning the English public school. It was well received by critics, with ""Variety"" praising it in a"
"by ""The New York Times"", ""showing some of the pastimes, curricular and otherwise"", as the fight scene between Tom Brown and Flashman was captioned. The 1940 film version was released on DVD in 2004, with a cover illustration of Dr. Arnold with Tom Brown and Flashman, as the famed educator admonishes the two after their fight. The film recorded a loss of $110,000. Tom Brown's School Days (1940 film) Tom Brown's School Days is a 1940 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage boy's experiences at Rugby School, Warwickshire in the early 19th century under the reforming headmastership of Thomas Arnold."
"Anthony Murphy (actor) Anthony Murphy (born 1956 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian-born English painter, with strong Irish connections. He exhibits regularly in Mayfair, London and Dublin, Ireland Murphy was a child-actor, his roles including the eponymous hero in the British television serial, ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" (1971), which won Emmys for Murphy as 'Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries' for his role as Tom Brown and as 'Best Miniseries' after it was screened by PBS in 1973. Despite the critical acclaim, he never again worked as an actor. Murphy attended New College at Oxford University from 1970-1975 to study Philosophy,"
"of the game of cricket. In the preface to this version, the translators praised the British education system, citing the example of the friendship between Tom and Dr Arnold as an example of how to raise a great nation. Another partial translation, consisting only of part 1 of the book, was released in 1912 by schoolteacher Nagao Tachibana. A fourth translation, also abridged, by Sada Tokinoya arrived in 1925. Finally, a complete translation was released in 1947 that eventually ran to ten separate editions. ""Tom Brown's School Days"" has had several screen adaptations, including: In the 1940 U.S. film, the"
"since. This can be seen in the emergence of the new genre of children's literature. Instead of the didactic nature of children's books of a previous age, authors began to write humorous, child-oriented books, more attuned to the child's imagination. ""Tom Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes appeared in 1857, and is considered as the founding book in the school story tradition. Lewis Carroll's fantasy ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", published in 1865 in England, signalled the change in writing style for children to an imaginative and empathetic one. Regarded as the first ""English masterpiece written for children"" and as a"
"about educational, religious, and science-based topics. Brown’s adult life consisted of teaching and writing. During the day, she taught in association with famous children’s teachers of the 19th century: Elizabeth Peabody and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann. When she wasn’t teaching, she wrote novels, poems, articles, and songs. Some of her most popular novels help children interact with science and nature. ""Alice and Tom"" is a book of lessons that follows the lives of the two children and the interaction between nature and humans. She also contributed to religious magazines and periodicals. She composed textbooks for children’s writing and literature, like"
"of the book's main characters, is generally believed to be based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. The fictional Tom's life also resembles the author's, in that the culminating event of his school career was a cricket match. The novel also features Dr Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), who was the actual headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. ""Tom Brown's School Days"" has been the source for several film and television adaptations. It also influenced the genre of British school novels, which began in the nineteenth century, and led to fictional depictions of schools such as Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School, Mr Chips'"
"Tom Brown (satirist) Thomas Brown (1662 – 18 June 1704), also known as Tom Brown, was an English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell. Brown was born at either Shifnal or Newport in Shropshire; he is identified with the Thomas Brown, son of William and Dorothy Brown, who was recorded christened on 1 January 1663 at Newport. His father, a farmer and tanner, died when Thomas was eight years old. He took advantage of the free schooling offered in the county during his day by attending Adams'"
"the moral effect of novels on young minds, and those that were published tended to lean towards giving moral instruction. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, and ""Dombey and Son"" (1848) and ""David Copperfield"" (1850) by Charles Dickens had school story elements, which generated considerable public interest and close to 100 school stories had been published between 1749 and 1857, the year that ""Tom Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes appeared. It is perhaps the most famous of all such tales, and its popularity helped firmly establish the genre, which rapidly expanded in the decades to follow across thousands of"
"Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (20 October 182222 March 1896) 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). Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative movement, and in a settlement in Tennessee reflecting his values. Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of the ""Boscobel Tracts"" (1830) and was born in Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He had"
"Thomas Edward Brown Thomas Edward Brown (5 May 1830 – 29 October 1897), commonly referred to as ""T. E. Brown,"" was a late-Victorian scholar, teacher, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and election as a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Brown served first as headmaster of the Crypt School, Gloucester, then as a young master at the fledgling Clifton College, near Bristol (inspiring, among others, nascent poet W.E. Henley at Crypt School). Writing throughout his teaching career, Brown developed a poetry corpus—with ""Fo'c's'le Yarns"" (1881), ""The Doctor"" (1887),"
"The start of the film includes real historical events which are not in the book: Dr. Arnold closing down the school hunt; Dr. Arnold complaining that before his time, there were no masters in the school overnight to keep the boys in order. ""Tom Brown's Schoolday's"" was met positively by the critics. It was called ""a flash of evil genius"" by ""The Daily Express"", ""one of the best TV adaptations of an English classic I have seen"" by ""The Daily Mail""; ""The Radio Times"" said that ""viewers of every political colour will find much to delight them in Tom Brown's"
"1834 went up to Balliol College, Oxford. He is generally considered to be the source for the character of George Arthur in Thomas Hughes's well-known book ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" which is based on Rugby. After winning the Ireland scholarship and Newdigate prize for an English poem (""The Gypsies""), he was in 1839 elected a Fellow of University College, and in the same year took holy orders. In 1840 he travelled in Greece and Italy, and on his return settled at Oxford, where for ten years he was tutor of his college and an influential element in university life. His relationship"
"Brown's School Days"" by Thomas Hughes as a bully at Rugby School, who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is expelled for drunkenness: Fraser's series of novels starts with Flashman's expulsion from school. Based on a literary conceit, an explanatory note—itself also fictional—at the start of ""Flashman"" sets the context and explains that the memoirs had been found in an auction house in Ashby, Leicestershire and had subsequently come into the possession of Fraser, who has acted in the role of editor. Fraser also included pages of notes and appendices at the end of each volume, providing the factual background for"
"story genre to much wider attention. ""Tom Brown's School Days"" influence on the genre of British school novels includes the fictional schools of Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School, Mr Chips' Brookfield, and St. Trinian's. It also directly inspired J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, set at the fictional boarding school Hogwarts. The series' first novel ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"" has many direct parallels in structure and theme to ""Tom Brown's School Days"". The book contains an account of a game of rugby football, the variant of football played at Rugby School (with many differences from the modern forms). The"
"Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and the Greyfriars tales by Frank Richards, appear to have been borrowed by writers of girls' stories, including Brazil. However, this may accord an undue influence to this literature, as there had been a gradual development from the 18th century toward fiction which was more specifically focused on gender, and many of the tropes in Brazil's books derive from the real-life schools attended by early 20th-century girls. There were also male readers of Brazil's works, although they tended to consume these books secretly and guiltily. These including a number of prominent figures, who confessed"
"Brown's School Days"" (1857), an account of life at Rugby School under the headship of Thomas Arnold. Due to similarities between their sporting careers at Rugby, Wills has been called the ""real-life embodiment"" of Tom Brown, the novel's fictitious hero. Wills' letter was alluded to two weeks after its publication in an advertisement posted by his friend, professional cricketer and publican Jerry Bryant, for a ""scratch match"" held adjacent to the MCG at the Richmond Paddock. The first of several kickabouts held that year involving Wills, Bryant and other Melbourne cricketers, it was described by one participant as ""football Babel"";"
"Tom Brown Jr. Tom Brown Jr. (born January 29, 1950) is an American naturalist, tracker, survivalist, and author from New Jersey, where he runs the Tom Brown Jr. Tracker School. In his books, Brown claims that, from the age of seven, he and his childhood friend Rick were trained in tracking and wilderness survival by Rick's grandfather, ""Stalking Wolf"" (whom Brown claims was Lipan Apache). There is no evidence that ""Stalking Wolf"" ever existed. Brown writes that Stalking Wolf died when Brown was 17, and that Rick was killed in a horse riding accident in Europe shortly thereafter. Brown spent"
"book's popularity helped to spread the popularity of this sport beyond the school. In Japan, ""Tom Brown's School Days"" was probably the most popular textbook of English-language origin for high-school students during the Meiji period (1868–1912). In 1899, an abridged version of the book (omitting chapter 9 of part 1, and chapters 5 and 7 of part 2) was published in Japanese translation. A subsequent, two-part, Japanese translation by Tsurumatsu Okamoto and Tomomasa Murayama appeared in 1903 and 1904, which, in addition to the previous omissions, also omitted the scene at the cricket match, due to the translators' stated ignorance"
"James Cooke Brown Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game ""Careers"". Brown's novel ""The Troika Incident"" (Doubleday, 1970) describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available"
"a colloquialism for ""story"". In 1975, the BBC commissioned a pilot episode from Palin and Jones, envisaged to be a light entertainment comedy piece. The result was ""Tomkinson's Schooldays"" (a title loosely inspired by ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", and suggested by BBC director Terry Hughes). Palin and Jones both wrote and starred in multiple roles. The nine episodes and their original airdates are: ""Tomkinson's Schooldays"" was shot on videotape with filmed exterior scenes. The remaining episodes were all shot on film. They were also originally shown with laugh tracks, but with a couple of exceptions these have been omitted from reruns."
"1991, on which he worked for four years and where he met co-writer Matthew Graham. He went on in 1994–1995 to contribute five episodes to the popular BBC One drama series ""Casualty"" and four episodes to ""Silent Witness"" (1996). For ITV he created the long-running series ""Where the Heart Is"", for which he wrote episodes from 1997 to 2000, and created the BBC One TV programme ""Down to Earth"" in 2001. Among other work in the early 2000s he scripted an adaptation of ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", starring Stephen Fry, for the ITV1 network in 2005. Meanwhile, , Matthew Graham and"
"School Days (1921 film) School Days is a 1921 American comedy film directed by William Nigh, written by Walter DeLeon, Hoey Lawlor and William Nigh, and starring Wesley Barry, George Lessey, Nellie Parker Spaulding, Margaret Seddon, Arline Blackburn, and J.H. Gilmour. It was released by Warner Bros. on December 25, 1921 and was Warner's biggest grossing film until ""The Sea Beast"" in 1926. Prints of ""School Days"" survives at the George Eastman House and UCLA Film and Television Archive with one reel missing. As described in a film magazine, Speck Brown (Barry) is a country boy who has been raised"
"Leonard Huxley (writer) Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 2 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor. His father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, commonly referred to as 'Darwin's bulldog'. Leonard was educated at University College School, London, St. Andrews University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He first married Julia Arnold, daughter of Tom Arnold. She was a sister of the novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School (immortalised as a character in ""Tom Brown's Schooldays""). Their four children included the biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975)"
"politicians. Bishop Cotton School has been ranked among the best boys only residential schools of India by media such as The Times of India, Outlook and Education World magazine. Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton was a scholar of Westminster, and a graduate of Cambridge. In 1836 he was appointed Assistant Master at Rugby by Doctor Thomas Arnold, one of the founders of the British public school system. It was the young Mr. Cotton who was spoken of as 'the model young master' in Thomas Hughe’s famous book 'Tom Brown's School Days'. The school opened for students on 15 March 1863."
"of and at the break-up of the school for the summer holidays, and on other occasions when a school song is normally sung. It is also sung at Abingdon School, Twyford School and Stamford School under similar circumstances, and was popular among 19th-century English public schoolboys. For example, it is mentioned in the early chapters of ""Tom Brown's School Days"". Paradoxically, although the subject of the song is the joy of breaking from the school grind and returning home for the holidays, it is often taken as symbolising the idyllic, nostalgic view of English public school life in the 19th"
"of ""Wuthering Heights"" when Heathcliff is coldly introduced and asks his servant Joseph to bring up wine for him and Lockwood. Snape commands the almost identical line to his servant Wormtail, with Snape described similarly to how Emily Brontë described Heathcliff. The ""Harry Potter"" series draws upon a long literary tradition of stories set in boarding schools. This school story genre originated in the Victorian era with ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", by Thomas Hughes. ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" laid down a basic structure which has been widely imitated, for example in Anthony Buckeridge's 1950s ""Jennings"" books. Both ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" and ""Harry"
"Thomas Arnold. Both Rugby School and Arnold figured prominently in Hughes's 1857 novel, ""Tom Brown's School Days"", and the school would eventually be the namesake for Hughes's utopian colony in Tennessee. In ""Tom Brown's School Days"", Hughes espoused the ideals of Christian socialism, namely the cooperative ownership of community businesses. By the 1860s, Hughes had grown disenchanted with the materialism of late Victorian England. He was disheartened by the fact that the talents of many of England's younger sons were wasted due to an economic recession and the medieval system of primogeniture, in which the oldest son inherited all of"
"Rugby School. Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"". A substantial part of the 2004 dramatisation of the novel, starring Stephen Fry, was filmed on location at Rugby School. Hughes later set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English gentry, who could not inherit under the laws of primogeniture, naming the town Rugby. The town of Rugby, Tennessee still exists. Rugby is a birthplace of the jet engine. In April 1937 Frank Whittle built the world's first prototype"
"was inspired to set the series in a day school following a letter from a young reader complaining that, despite being the setting for many school stories, boarding schools were in fact no more exciting environments than day schools. This is something remarked upon by the narrator. The ""Harry Potter"" series of novels has in some respects revived the genre, despite having a strong leaning towards fantasy conventions. Elements of the school story prominent in ""Harry Potter"" including the action being described almost exclusively from the point of view of pupils. While school stories originated in Britain with ""Tom Brown's"
"a character in the 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes, ""Tom Brown's School Days""; Hughes' version of the character is a bully at Rugby School who is expelled for drunkenness. The character was then developed by Fraser, and appeared in the 1969 novel ""Flashman"". Fraser went on to write a total of eleven novels and one collection of short stories featuring the character. During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from"
"theme of the novel is the development of boys. The symmetrical way in which Tom and Arthur supply each other's deficiencies shows that Hughes believed in the importance of physical development, boldness, fighting spirit, and sociability (Tom's contribution) as well as Christian morality and idealism (Arthur's). The novel is essentially didactic and was not primarily written as an entertainment. As Hughes said: Although there were as many as 90 stories set in British boarding schools published between Sarah Fielding's ""The Governess, or The Little Female Academy"" in 1749 and 1857, ""Tom Brown's School Days"" was responsible for bringing the school"