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Tom Hood (19 January 1835 – 20 November 1874), was an English humorist and playwright, and son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. A prolific author, in 1865 he was appointed editor of the magazine ''Fun''. He founded ''Tom Hood's Comic Annual'' in 1867. ==Biography== Hood was born at Lake House, Leytonstone, England, the son of the poet Thomas Hood and his wife. After attending University College School and Louth Grammar School, he entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853. There he studied for the Church and passed all the examinations for the degree of BA, but did not graduate. At Oxford he wrote his ''Farewell to the Swallows'' (1853) and ''Pen and Pencil Pictures'' (1854). He began to write for the ''Liskeard Gazette'' in 1856, and edited that paper in 1858–1859. In 1861 he wrote ''Quips and Cranks'', and ''Daughters of King Daher, and other Poems''.〔(''The Daughters of King Daher, a Story of the Mohammedan Invasion of Scinde; and other Poems'' ), Saunders, Otley, and Co. 1861.〕 The next year, he published ''Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep, a Rhyming Rigmarole'', followed in 1864 by ''Vere Vereker's Vengeance, a Sensation,'' and in 1865 by ''Jingles and Jokes for the Little Folks''. His novels included ''A Disputed Inheritance'' (1863), ''A Golden Heart'' (1867),〔(''A Golden Heart: A Novel'' ), (Vol. II ), (Vol. III ), Tinsley Brothers, 1867.〕 ''The Lost Link'' (1868),〔(''The Lost Link: A Novel'' ), (Vol. II ), (Vol. III ), Tinsley Brothers, 1868.〕 ''Captain Masters's Children'' (1865),〔(''Captain Master's Children: A Novel'' ), (Vol. II ), (Vol. III ), Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865.〕 and ''Love and Valour'' (1872).〔(''Love and Valor'' ), James R. Osgood and Company, 1872.〕 In 1866 he translated Ernest L'Épine's ''La Légende de Croquemitaine''.〔(''The Days of Chivalry, or the Legend of Croquemitaine'' ), Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1866.〕 He also wrote two books on English verse composition, several children's books (in conjunction with his sister, Frances Freeling Broderip), and a body of magazine and journal articles. Hood drew with considerable facility, and illustrated several of his father's comic verses, some of which were collected in his father's book, ''Precocious Piggy''.〔"Clever and kindly Tom Hood, not long before he died, gave me a bound copy of that droll yet sympathetic nursery story, written by his distinguished father the poet and wit, entitled ' The Headlong Career and Woeful Ending of Precocious Piggy.' Tom Hood often told me how, as a little boy, he had enjoyed the comical history, when it was related to him by his father, who had written it especially for the amusement of his children, and who were all, more or less, deeply interested in Piggy's adventures. I have drawn many a laugh and many a tear from the little ones to whom I have read the story, and my copy, a gift from the son, who so cleverly illustrated his father's quaint fancy, is much prized by me." — Squire & Effie Bancroft, (''Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the Stage'' ), Vol. II, Chap. 1, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888, p. 13.〕 Meanwhile, in 1860, the younger Hood obtained a position in the War Office, which he served for five years. In 1865 he left when selected as editor of ''Fun'', the comic paper, which became very popular under his direction. In private life, Hood's geniality and sincere friendliness secured him the affection and esteem of a wide circle of acquaintance.〔"Tom Hood had an influence among the younger writers and artists of his day that cannot be over-rated. He was the most unselfish and least jealous of men. He loved to get his friends about him to talk shop, and to encourage one another in their various callings. Every Friday night of his life, though not particularly blest with this world's riches, he gave a cheery Bohemian supper-party, to which the best fellows in the world were invited. Who that was privileged to attend them can have forgotten Tom Hood's " Friday nights" in South Street, Brompton, where after a pipe and music, conversation, and poetry readings, we sat down to a homely meal of cold joint and roast potatoes, and discussed all the wonderful things that we youngsters intended to do in the future." — Clement Scott, (''Thirty Years at the Play'' ), The Railway and General Automatic Library, 1891, pp. 20–21.〕 Some of these friends became contributors to his publications. For example, he befriended the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and the American journalist Ambrose Bierce,〔Robert L. Gale, ''An Ambrose Bierce Companion'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.〕 both frequent contributors to ''Fun''. Hood wrote the burlesque, ''Robinson Crusoe; or, The Injun Bride and the Injured Wife'' (1867), together with Gilbert, H. J. Byron, H. S. Leigh and Arthur Sketchley. Hood's ''Fun'' gang also included playwright Thomas W. Robertson, among others.〔T. H. S. Escott, ("Beginning Work (1865–6)." ) In ''Platform, Press, Politics & Play'', J. W. Arrowsmith, 1895.〕 In 1867 he first issued ''Tom Hood's Comic Annual''. Hood died suddenly in his cottage at Peckham Rye, Surrey in November 1874. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Hood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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