Tom Sayers in Fiction
A fictionalised Tom Sayers appeared in a series of weekly adventures penned for story paper The Marvel by Amalgamated Press writer Arthur S Hardy (real name Arthur Joseph Steffens, b. September 28, 1873) in the first decade of the twentieth century. Hardy's version of Sayers was an Edwardian actor-manager, touring Britain's theatres and Music Halls with staged recreations of his boxing triumphs in a career move very loosely based on the real Sayers' circus venture. This romanticised figure was revived and further developed as a central character in The Kingdom of Bones, a 2007 novel by Stephen Gallagher.
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