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Published by Auckland University Press Oxford University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0196479800ISBN 13: 9780196479804
Seller: Hessay Books, York, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. A heavy book of 276pp. The dustjacket is rubbed to the edges, and has a repaied tear to the back. B + w illustrations, endpaper family tree and map. Internally very clean. The letters of Thomas Arnold, the brother of Matthew Arnold and father of Mrs Humphry Ward to moved to Van Diemen's Land - Tasmania - in 1850, where he converted to Roman Catholicism. He afterwards taught in Dublin, Birmingham and Oxford, where after a period of religious doubts he returned to the Roman Cathoc Church. He was a friend of Newman, Clough and Acton and a vigorous writer and critic.
Published by University of Auckland; Oxford U.P., [Auckland]; London,; Wellington, 1966
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
hard cover with dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. illus., ports. 23 cm. Maps on lining-papers. Bibliographical footnotes. xliv, 257 pages VG/VG. Light shelf wear and edge chipping to dust jacket with small areas of loss around some chips and a few short closed tears, top page edges dust stained, overall very good condition.
Published by university of auckland london 1966, 1966
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
first edition 257pp ills.[b/w] VG (green cloth,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in VG dustwrapper (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.).
Published by University of Auckland
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
First Edition
hardback with dustjacket. 1st Edition. Dustjacket edges chipped.
Published by Auckland University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0196479800ISBN 13: 9780196479804
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Book
har5dback with dustjacket. Thomas Arnold, second son of Dr Arnold of Rugby, left England in search of a new life, first in New Zealand and then in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1850. There he became an inspector of schools and married the beautiful Julia Sorrell. The record covered in this second volume of his letters begins at this point and continues with a generous selection of his letters to the end of his life in 1900. The earlier letters give a vivid impression of life in Van Diemen's Land and of his own home life. Arnold holds an interesting, if minor, place in literary and educational history. However, the great strength and fascination of these letters probably lies in their record of the man himself, caught up, sometimes tempestuously, in the movements of his time, particularly in his religious unsettlement and wrestling with Roman Catholicism; and of a marriage in which agonising disagreements on the deepest issues threatened but never overwhelmed the mutual love of both. Library stamps and markings {"length"=>["26"], "width"=>["16"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.
Published by University of Auckland / Oxford University Press, London & Wellington, 1966
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Patrick Hanly (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small loss to top and bottom of spine, corners rubbed, some slight browning to spine, red smear to back jacket, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 257pp, map endpapers. Tom Arnold (1823-1900), also known as Thomas Arnold the Younger, was an English literary scholar and second son of the famous schoolmaster Thomas Arnold of Rugby. Arnold grew discontented with Victorian Britain and attempted to take up farming in New Zealand. Failing to make a success of this career, in 1850 he moved to Tasmania, having been invited to take the job of Inspector of Schools by Governor William Denison. Soon after arriving in Hobart, he fell in love with and married Julia Sorell, granddaughter of former Governor William Sorell. They had nine children (four of whom died young), among them: Ethel, who was a suffragist and child model, Mary, who became a novelist under the name Mrs Humphry Ward, Julia, who married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas, and gave birth to Julian and Aldous, and William Thomas the journalist. While in Tasmania, Arnold converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, a move which angered his Protestant wife sufficiently to cause her to smash the windows of the chapel during his confirmation. The marriage was to be plagued by domestic strife over religious loyalty until Julia's death. At the time Tasmania would not employ Catholics in senior civil service positions, and so in 1857 the family moved back to England. Arnold took a job teaching English literature at the Catholic University in Dublin. One of his last students was James Joyce. This book is a record of his life in New Zealand and Tasmania, told through his letters. A scarce book.
Publication Date: 1980
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Dunedin 1980. Royal 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket slightly rubbed otherwise clean and bright. xxxvi 276pp. B/w illustrations. Fine. NOTE: As brother of Matthew Arnold father of Mrs Humphrey Ward friend of such representative figures as Newman Clough and Acton and as a vigorous writer and critic himself he holds a minor place in literary and educational history.