Tom Brown at Oxford

xii, 546 pp. With illustrations by Sydney P. Hall. "Tom Brown at Oxford is a novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in serial form in Macmillan Magazine in 1859. It was published in two volumes in book form in 1861. It is a sequel to the better-known Tom Brown's School Days. The story follows the character of Tom Brown to St Ambrose's College, Oxford. The novel offers a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. The illustrator Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922), portrait painter and illustrator, was one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period."