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Flashman and the Victorian social conscience.

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20030601
Author:Ramsay, Allan

THE series of Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser which began to appear in the late 1960s had as their inspiration the brilliantly ingenious idea of updating the life history of the disgraced bully of Thomas Hughes novel Torn Brown's Schooldays. Hughes' novel, published in 1857, was written as a tribute to Thomas Arnold, the Headmaster of Rugby, who revolutionised the education of the upper-middle classes in the early nineteenth century in the period between the Battle of Waterloo (which was won, as all the world once knew, on the playing fields of the pre-Arnoldian, ...

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