Charles Kingsley

Around the same time, too, AK underwent a crisis of religious faith. She was troubled by various points of orthodox belief, but particularly the doctrine of eternal punishment in Hell: a doctrine which, as...

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...

LM (together with her niece ) became a convert to Roman Catholicism: a remarkable rejection of the life's work of her father , who was not only an Anglican but a militant anti-Catholic.

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...

Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve...

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

MR came first in her class in school examinations, and received as prize a copy of Charles Kingsley 's The Heroes.

In 1850, AP was among the first students to attend Queen's College for women students. One of the teachers here was Charles Kingsley , and it has been argued that she was more influenced by...

After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, she also described herself as having always been from...

As a girl, the future EG loved to hear Tennyson 's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald 's The...

At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself...

The Kingsley family was famous for literary activity. Mary had two novelist uncles (her father's brothers) Henry Kingsley and the more eminent Charles Kingsley , who was also a clergyman.

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 . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

The year after the death of her father, Charles Kingsley , Mary St Leger Kingsley (later LM ) married the Rev. William Harrison , who had served as curate to her father, shared his Evangelicism...