THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

BERKSHIRE

SOMERSETSHIRE

DING 2015: "The Scouring of the White Horse (1859) contains mainly instances of Berkshire dialect and also a song in the Somerset dialect.”

Leclaire (1954:100): “The author of Tom Brown’s School Day’s, a book of but little interest here, the first scenes only being laid in the Vale of the White Horse. Born at Uffingdon, Berkshire. Educated at Rugby and Oxford, like Tom Brown. Called to the bar in 1848."

WORKS

1857. Tom Brown’s School Days. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. EDD

1859. The Scouring of the White Horse. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. SC. EDD.

        Leclaire (1954:100): “This little book is full of the spirit of the Berkshire Downs, and the life of their people.”

1859. "The Zong of the Zummerzetshire Owld Geamster". The Scouring of the White Horse. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.: 120. SC. EDD.

1861. Tom Brown at Oxford. 1861. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. EDD

KINGKONG PROJECT

Thomas HUGHES (M: 1822 Oct 20 - 1896 Mar 22)

(&ps: An Old BOY)

1480,D    Tom Brown's Schooldays (aka: School Days At Rugby) [f|1857]

                 The Scouring Of The White Horse [f|1859]

26851      Tom Brown At Oxford [f|1861]

                 Religio Laici [n|1861]

                 A Layman's Faith [n|1868]

                 Alfred The Great [b|1870]

*               A Memoir Of A Brother [n|1873]

                 The Manliness Of Christ [n|1879]

                 Rugby, Tennessee [n|1881]

                 Memoir Of Daniel Macmillan [b|1882]

                 Gone To Texas [n|1884]

                 Notes For Boys [n|1885]

                 James Fraser, Second Bishop Of Manchester [b|1887]

                 David Livingstone [b|1889]

                 Vacation Rambles [n|1895]

                 Early Memories For The Children [n|1899]

&              The Misfortunes Of Arthur [f|?]

*                 Tom Brown At Rugby (ps: An Old BOY) [f|?]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hughes

http://www.historicrugby.org/thomas-hughes.php

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hughes/whitehorse.html

http://www.litnotes.co.uk/tombrown.htm

Mitchell, Charlotte.  2012. "Hughes, Thomas (1822–1896)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14091, accessed 4 May 2015]

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Thomas Hughes

(1822-1896)