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Learning Resources

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Materials Available From Historic Rugby

(Prices Include Packing & Mailing - Call 1-888-214-3400 To Order)

Board of Aid/Historic Rugby. The Rugby Handbook. Rugby, Tennessee. Facsimile Reproduction of 1884 Publication, Historic Rugby Press, 1996. $11.00

DeBruyn, Dr. John. A New Centre of Human Life: The Family of Thomas Hughes At Rugby, Tennessee. Historic Rugby Press, 1996. $8.00

An Anthology of Rugby Poetry With Listing of Early Colonists. Historic Rugby Press, 1997. $6.00

Recipes From Rugby: From Early Colonists To Today's Rugby Friends. Historic Rugby Press, 1998. $8.00

Neff, Susan/Historic Rugby. Historic Rugby Landscape Master Plan. Historic Rugby. $18.00

Materials Available From Libraries or Online Booksellers

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Hamer, Dr. Marguerite. Cameos of the South - Thomas Hughes and His American Rugby. John C. Winston Company. 1940

Mack, Edward & W.H.G. Armytage. Thomas Hughes: The Life of the Author of Tom Brown's Schooldays. Ernest Benn Limited. 1952

Stagg, Brian. The Distant Eden: Tennessee's Rugby Colony. Rugby, Tennessee. Paylor Publications, 1973

Hughes, Emily. Dissipations at Uffington House: The Letters of Emily Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, 1881-1887. Edited & Introduced by Dr. John R. DeBruyn, Memphis University Press, 1977.

Egerton, John. Visions of Utopia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

Worth, George. Thomas Hughes. Twayne English Author Series, G.K. Hall, 1984

Trory, Ernest. Truth Against the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hughes. Crabtree Press. 1993

Lambton, Lucinda. Old New World: The Old Fashionedness of America. Harper Collins Publishers. 2000.

Archival Resources

Historic Rugby. A Guide To The Historic Rugby Archives & Research Centre. Rugby, Tennessee.

Tennessee State Library & Archives. "Rugby Papers." 1872-1942. MS Div. Ar. Nos. 145, 1661, 1740, 67-89, 68-81, and microfilm accession nos. 39, 239 & 253.

Princeton University Special Collections. "Morris L. Parrish Victorian Authors Collection"

Selected Articles

Holiday, October, 1948, "Town of Cultured Ghosts, P.81-92

Americana, April, 1988, "Revival In Rugby," P. 29-33, Patricia Hudson

Classic America Foursquare Enterprises, Spring, 1989, "A Victorian Utopia In Tennessee," P.24--34

Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1993, "Whose Son's Settled Rugby? A Study of the Population at Rugby, Tennessee in the 1880's," P.192-198, Dr. Calvin Dickinson

Tennessee Business. Vol.6, No. 1, 1995, "Heritage Tourism & Community Development: Lessons From Historic Rugby," P.37-44, Dr. Benita Howell

American Libraries. April, 1998, "Rugby Library: Frozen In Time," P.82-87, George Eberhart

Oxford American. March/April, 2001. "Far From the Madding Utopia," P.66-75, Cynthia Shearer.

Selected Works by Thomas Hughes:
Tom Brown's Schooldays. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1857 (100+ Editions)

Scouring of the White Horse. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1858 (And later editions)

The Bigelow Papers by James Russell Lowell. Edited & Prefaced by Thomas Hughes. London: Trübner, 1859

Tom Brown At Oxford. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1861 (And later editions)

Alfred the Great. London: Macmillan, 1869

David Livingstone. London: Macmillan, 1889

Life & Times of Peter Cooper. London: Macmillan, 1886

The Cause of Freedom: Which Is It's Champion in America, The North or the South? London: Emancipation Society (1863)

"The Struggle for Kansas." In J.M. Ludlow, A Sketch of the History of the United States. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862

A Manual for Co-Operators. Edited by Thomas Hughes and E.V. Neale. London: Macmillan, 1881

Rugby, Tennessee: Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded On The Cumberland Plateau. Macmillan & Co. 1881