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Calcutta Telegraph, October 27, 2011
...that had mentioned Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, in response to a teacher’s question about a Thomas Hughes poem. Rather envious, no one had thought that Robson could be the stuff of literature. Only Finn, with a mother mysteriously separated from...
Guardian.co.uk, October 11, 2011
...of a rugger-buggers' outing to the 1930 Varsity match at Twickenham To toss the founder of the feast Thomas Hughes and his Tom Brown's Schooldays of 1857 into the mix would skew the easy flow of this debate but, offhand, to name a few more terrific...
Guardian.co.uk, July 2, 2011
...to the banks of the Tyne. Not quite a death in the family, but a terminus of sorts. Thomas Hughes was born in Liverpool in 1888, the son of a shopkeeper from Corwen in north Wales, who kept stores in Old Hall Street above Princes Dock, and in Walton...
Guardian.co.uk, June 10, 2011
...character impossible to hand over to another screenwriter. I was hooked. I'd adapted novels before, but both Thomas Hughes and Thomas Hardy were safely dead and it was with some trepidation that I travelled to Edinburgh to meet Kate Atkinson. It was the...
Miss A™, June 18, 2011
...there’s the Book Beats Family Storytime Series Harold Washington Library Center every Wednesday all summer. The storytime programs are in the Thomas Hughes Children’s Library in the spacious Harold Washington Library Center. During the...
Media: Organ Grinder | guardian.co.uk, June 10, 2011
...Case Histories -Case Histories - Part 1 more Full TV guide I'd adapted novels before, but both Thomas Hughes and Thomas Hardy were safely dead and it was with some trepidation that I travelled to Edinburgh to meet Kate Atkinson. It was the oddest of...
Floor to Ceiling Books, June 8, 2011
...him forward was rapidly overtaken (helped by the fact that subsequent generations are less and less familiar with Thomas Hughes's original) by the much more entertaining idea of a character who weaves seamlessly into non-fictional history. Flashman...
The Book Scout, May 29, 2011
...answer to that would be the classic novel of British boarding school life, Tom Brown's Schooldays , by Thomas Hughes; and possibly She's the Man , the film that is really Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in contemporary clothing. Finally, what was I hoping to...
