Charles Kingsley

The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea, 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...

Charles Kingsley , to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it.

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...

Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity.Marie Belloc Lowndes , who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)

Writers Charles and Henry Kingsley were CC 's brothers; she also had two other brothers, Gerald and George.

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...

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 .

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...

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 ....

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...