Charles Kingsley

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Standard Name: Kingsley, Charles,, 1819 - 1875

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Cultural formation Annie Keary
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
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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in Hell: a doctrine which, as...
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...
Cultural formation Lucas Malet
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Charles Kingsley
Education John Strange Winter
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,
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890.
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she also described herself as having always been from...
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...
Education Adelaide Procter
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...
Education Mary Renault
MR came first in her class in school examinations, and received as prize a copy of Charles Kingsley 's The Heroes.
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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Education Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
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...
Education Edna Lyall
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...
Education Jean Rhys
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...
Education Elinor Glyn
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...
Education Olivia Manning
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Chanter
Writers Charles and Henry Kingsley were CC 's brothers; she also had two other brothers, Gerald and George.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Kingsley
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.
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
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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, 1983.
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The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

Timeline

12 June 1819
Charles Kingsley , novelist, was born at Holne Vicarage, Holne, Devon.
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 Problem, appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
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 New Faces was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
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
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, 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, 1981, pp. 159 - 80.
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appeared.
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 At Last, A Christmas in the West Indies.
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.