Charles Kingsley

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Standard Name: Kingsley, Charles,, 1819 - 1875

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Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA when they were young, Edith Wharton stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Barrett Browning
During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....
Textual Production Rosa Nouchette Carey
The title of RNC 's novel "But Men Must Work", issued this year, refers (like other titles of hers) to gender roles: it is from Charles Kingsley 's The Three Fishers: For men...
Friends, Associates Thomas Carlyle
He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife , as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and Alfred Tennyson .
Education Laura Ormiston Chant
As a consequence of her parents' discipline, Laura (who had till then been educated at home) ran away at fifteen, and was subsequently sent to a boarding school in Chester. While there she developed...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Chanter
Writers Charles and Henry Kingsley were CC 's brothers; she also had two other brothers, Gerald and George.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Charles
EC knew many leaders of Victorian religious thought, including Archibald Tait (Archbishop of Canterbury), writer and cleric Charles Kingsley , and Edward Pusey , the central figure of the Oxford Movement. The legacy of...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Charles
Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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Marie Belloc Lowndes , who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
Charles Kingsley , to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Intertextuality and Influence Ellen Mary Clerke
The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea,
Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell.
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which include the title poem and the patriotic Eastward Ho! During the Russo-Turkish War. The latter's allusion to Kingsley 's Westward Ho! (apart...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell
Family and Intimate relationships Dinah Mulock Craik
George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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The marriage apparently proved happy. The...
Textual Features Mary Angela Dickens
MAD delves into Malet's thoughts on gender and her familial relationships, beginning with Malet's quarrel with Fate because it turned her out a woman and not a man and similarly jumbled things up altogether in...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Fraser-Tytler
Edward Liddell was a lifelong member of the Christian Social Union and received counsel early in his adulthood from Charles Kingsley , who asked him to become his curate. Liddell, however, had already engaged to...
Family and Intimate relationships James Anthony Froude
Her sister, Frances Eliza Grenfell , married Charles Kingsley , and after his death became his editor and biographer.

Timeline

12 June 1819: Charles Kingsley, novelist, was born at Holne...

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12 June 1819

Charles Kingsley , novelist, was born at Holne Vicarage, Holne, Devon.

By 1 April 1848: Charles Kingsley published The Saint's Tragedy,...

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By 1 April 1848

Charles Kingsley published The Saint's Tragedy, a blank verse drama on the life of St Elizabeth of Hungary .

July-December 1848: Charles Kingsley's first novel, Yeast, A...

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July-December 1848

Charles Kingsley 's first novel, Yeast, A Problem, appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.

1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...

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1850

Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.

January 1852-April 1853: Charles Kingsley's Hypatia, Or Old Foes with...

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January 1852-April 1853

Charles Kingsley 's Hypatia , Or Old Foes with New Faces was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.

Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...

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Earlier 1855

Charles Kingsley published his novelWestward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

Probably October 1858: The Ladies' National Association for the...

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Probably October 1858

August 1862-March 1863: Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies: A Fairy...

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August 1862-March 1863

Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby was serialised in Macmillan's Magazine.

1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...

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1864-1867

The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 159-80.
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appeared.

January-December 1865: Charles Kingsley's last novel Hereward the...

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January-December 1865

Charles Kingsley 's last novelHereward the Wake, was serialised as Hereward, The Last of the English in Good Words.

By 10 June 1871: Charles Kingsley published the travel narrative...

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By 10 June 1871

Charles Kingsley published the travel narrative At Last, A Christmas in the West Indies.

23 January 1875: Charles Kingsley, clergyman and novelist,...

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23 January 1875

Charles Kingsley , clergyman and novelist, husband of Fanny Kingsley and father of Mary St Leger Kingsley (who later wrote as Lucas Malet ), died at Eversley, Hampshire.

Texts

Kingsley, Charles. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1877.
Kingsley, Charles. Daily Thoughts. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1884.
Kingsley, Charles. From Death to Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1887.
Kingsley, Charles. Out of the Deep. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1880, http://archive.org/details/outdeepwordsfor00kinggoog.
Malet, Lucas, and Charles Kingsley. The Tutor’s Story. Smith, Elder, 1916.
Kingsley, Charles. True Words for Brave Men. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Keegan Paul & Co, 1878.