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Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 - 22 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... Read Full Overview

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Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages.In this novel, Kingsley set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clothing trade and the trials and... Read Full Overview

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Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet An Autobiography is a novel written by Charles Kingsley that was first published in 1850. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, Alton Locke, who is a young tailor and aspiring poet living in London during the mid-19th century... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this... Read Full Overview