Charles Kingsley

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...

LM 's father was the Rev. Charles Kingsley , a clergyman who was already making a name as a Christian social activist and a novelist. Before her birth he had also held a part-time appointment...

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...

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...

Her daughter mentions among EM 's friends the gifted Frances Bunnett (who published her translations as F. E. Bunnett), Frances Alleyne (also a translator, as S. [Sarah] F. Alleyne), and Frances Mary Owen

WM was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley , Thomas Carlyle , and John Ruskin (a particularly influential discovery).

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...

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...

It originated as a reply to Charles Kingsley 's charge that Newman did not hold truth to be an essential virtue.

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. Torquay at the time of their arrival was...

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...

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

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...

In 1854 she met Charles Kingsley at a dinner given by Richard Monckton Milnes . Henry Layard, the traveller and archaeologist, also became a friend. Harriet Grote was another new and close friend, and...

When HBS later visited England she was a celebrity: crowds waited for her arrival on a Liverpool pier. Charles Kingsley said in a letter to her that her novel caused him to re-evaluate his opinion...