Fanny Kingsley

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Fanny Kingsley 's literary activity centres around the life of her husband, the writer and clergyman Charles Kingsley. She edited his letters for publication after his death, as well as several volumes of his religious writings. Her biography of him was wildly successful in the 1870s and 1880s, and remained continuously in print until 1983.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
under Charles Kingsley, Letters and Memories of His Life
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
under Kingsley, Frances Eliza

Milestones

13 April 1814

FK was born at Taplow House, near Maidenhead in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley

December 1876

Almost two years after her husband's death, FK released what amounts to her biography of him: Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, in two volumes bearing the imprint of Henry S. King and Co . The title page, dated 1877, identifies her only as editor.
Kingsley, Charles. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1: Title Page
Chitty, Susan. The Beast and the Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley. Mason/Charter.
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1887

FK edited and published From Death to Life: Fragments of Teaching to a Village Congregation, her final selection of Charles Kingsley's sermons and letters on life after death.

11 or 12 December 1891

FK died at her home, Tachbrook Mallory in Warwickshire, on this date or the day before, aged seventy-seven, after years of heart disease.
The record of her effects says she died on the 11th, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says the 12th, as does the Daily News.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley

Biography

Birth and Family

13 April 1814

FK was born at Taplow House, near Maidenhead in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley

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