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Plaque in Cheapside, City of London, marking the site of the house where Thomas Hood was born. Thomas Hood was born to Thomas Hood and Elizabeth Sands in Poultry , London, above his father's bookshop. His father's family had been Scottish farmers from the village of Errol near Dundee. The elder Hood was a partner in the business of Vernor, Hood ...
Thomas Hood (19 January 1835 – 20 November 1874) was an English humorist, playwright and author. He was the son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. Pen and Pencil Pictures (1857) was the first of his illustrated books. His most successful novel was Captain Master's Children (1865).
The story begins with emphasizing the fact that throughout history, lovers used disguises to get close to their beloved women and brings the transformations of Jupiter as the first example of this trend. Then a young man, Torrello of Bergamo is introduced, and his love towards Fiorenza, the daughter of a local wealthy family.
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The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books. ... is a short story by Thomas Hood that was first published in Hood's collection ...
Although Thomas Hood (1799–1845) is usually regarded as a humorous poet, towards the end of his life, when he was on his sick bed, he wrote a number of poems commenting on contemporary poverty. These included "The Song of the Shirt", "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Labourer". [1] "The Bridge of Sighs" is particularly well-known ...
Introduces Toby, Henrietta, Percy, Bertie and Harold.; Thomas does not at all appear in this book despite appearing in "Bertie's Chase" and "Percy Proves a Point". In the original print, the sentence line "It was such an insult to be reminded of the time a bootlace had been used to mend a hole in his coaches."
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [ 1 ]