''Tom Brown at Oxford'' is a

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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. ...

, first published in serial form in

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in 1859. It was published in two volumes in book form in 1861. It is a

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to the better-known ''

Tom Brown's School Days ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (sometimes written ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', also published under the titles ''Tom Brown at Rugby'', ''School Days at Rugby'', and ''Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby'') is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes. The stor ...

''.
The story follows the character of Tom Brown to

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St Ambrose's College, Oxford. The novel offers a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. The book was out of print for many years but is available in Britain from Wordsworth Classics with 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' and is now available on the

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site. Editions of the serialized form are available at from the Hathi Trust. The illustrator Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922), portrait painter and illustrator, was one of the leading ''

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'' artists of the later Victorian period.

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National Portrait Gallery page on Sydney Prior Hall
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