Historic Rugby Village in Tennessee - Thomas Hughes Victorian England

Materials Available From Historic Rugby

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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: Tr�bner, 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

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Historic Rugby Vision

British-founded Rugby, Tennessee, is a rare example of a rural, living community that survives from its 1880s utopian beginnings with its town plan intact, many buildings and its natural setting preserved and with no encroaching incompatible development. This is the result of a long chain of human effort to preserve it, inspired by its founder's vision of equality and cooperation, community planning and natural resources stewardship. Rugby and its heritage must be preserved for all time and shared with this and future generations.

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