Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Charles Kingsley
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Standard Name: Kingsley, Charles,, 1819 - 1875
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
Textual Production | John Henry Newman | It originated as a reply to Charles Kingsley
's charge that Newman did not hold truth to be an essential virtue. |
Textual Production | Lucas Malet | Lucas Malet
issued (besides her novel Damaris, about an English child growing up in India) The Tutor's Story, her revision of a book which her father
had drafted during the early 1860s... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 427 |
Textual Production | Rosa Nouchette Carey | 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... |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Textual Features | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
delves into Malet's thoughts on gender and her familial relationships, beginning with Malet's quarrel with Fate because it turned her out a woman and not a man and similarly jumbled things up altogether in... |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
Residence | Frances Mary Peard | The 1881 census lists them in Tormoham (a part of Torquay): FMP
's mother was listed as the householder, and Frances Mary was listed as without occupation. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Reception | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1647 (1859): 675 |
Reception | Lucy Walford | After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW
decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Publishing | Mary Kingsley | MK
approached George Macmillan
, her uncle Charles
's publisher, with the manuscript The Bights of Benin. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin. 91 |
politics | William Morris | WM
was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley
, Thomas Carlyle
, and John Ruskin
(a particularly influential discovery). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
12 June 1819: Charles Kingsley, novelist, was born at Holne...
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12 June 1819
Charles Kingsley
, novelist, was born at Holne Vicarage, Holne, Devon.
By 1 April 1848: Charles Kingsley published The Saint's Tragedy,...
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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...
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July-December 1848
Charles Kingsley
's first novel, Yeast, A Problem, appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...
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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...
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January 1852-April 1853
Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...
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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: The Ladies' National Association for the...
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Probably October 1858
The Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge
was founded through the work of Isa Craig
, Elizabeth Garrett
, and Lady Stanley of Alderley
, and others.
August 1862-March 1863: Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies: A Fairy...
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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,...
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1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts appeared.
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, pp. 159-80.
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January-December 1865: Charles Kingsley's last novel Hereward the...
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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...
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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,...
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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.
Texts
Kingsley, Charles. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1877.
Kingsley, Charles. Daily Thoughts. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1884.
Kingsley, Charles. From Death to Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1887.
Kingsley, Charles. Out of the Deep. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1880, http://archive.org/details/outdeepwordsfor00kinggoog.
Malet, Lucas, and Charles Kingsley. The Tutor’s Story. Smith, Elder, 1916.
Kingsley, Charles. True Words for Brave Men. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Keegan Paul & Co, 1878.