Talbot Baines Reed
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Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
Pen-and-ink portrait of Reed, c. 1880
Charles Reed MP, father of Talbot Baines Reed
The City of London School in Milk Street, Cheapside
The Caxton Exhibition, South Kensington, July 1877. In this illustration, W.E. Gladstone stands centre picture; on the right are William Blades (bearded) and, far right, Charles Reed
Eric, or, Little by Little
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Eric, or, Little by Little is a book by Frederic W. Farrar, first edition 1858. It was published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh and London. The book deals with the descent into moral turpitude of
Talbot Baines Reed
…mixing of the earlier school story traditions established by Dean Farrar and Thomas Hughes, crafted with a vivid readability. Reed dismissed Farrar's Eric, or, Little by Little as a religious tract thinly disguised as a school story, and sought to produce something more "manly". Many of the incidents and characterisations…
Cover of the 1891 edition
Title page from 1891 edition of the book.
Frontispiece from the 1891 edition, with illustrations by Gordon Browne (1858–1932).