George Henry Kingsley

MK 's mother, neé Mary Bailey, was an innkeeper's daughter who had served George Henry Kingsley in a domestic capacity, probably as a cook, before their marriage on 9 October 1862. The next month...

MK 's father, George Henry Kingsley , was an avid traveller who was absent for months or even years at a time during her childhood. In her youth the family member who was most...

During MK 's holiday in Paris her mother had a violent attack of brain disease which left her thenceforward unable to cope with her daughter's absence for more than an hour or two. A stroke...

This move meant that MK could participate in a lively social, intellectual, and emotional environment first hand, rather than vicariously through books. Though according to biographer Katherine Frank she was not, as a woman...

In 1886, soon after the publication of the York Plays, LTS edited at the request of Lady Caroline KerrisonA Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century, a short, anonymous collection of poetry, prose...

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

MK 's two-hundred-page memoir of her father, George Henry Kingsley , appeared with a collection of his previously unpublished works which she assembled under the title Notes on Sports and Travel.

Her biographer Katherine Frank speculates on Kingsley's public versus her private rationale for setting out on such a voyage. Kingsley professed that her intention was to complete the research for a book begun by her...