Charles Kingsley

During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's...

Charles Kingsley , to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it.

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...

The Athenæum published a positive review of Constance Sherwood on 16 September 1865, claiming that GFhas written a book which no one can read without deep interest; and she has written it in an...

Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA when they were young, Edith Wharton stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother...

The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley 's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is...

The children of Charles Kingsley (whose own The Heroes, re-telling Greek mythological stories, had appeared a year before The Heroes of Asgard), were particularly keen on the Keary Norse collection. A reprint...

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea, which include the title poem and the patriotic Eastward Ho! During the Russo-Turkish War. The latter's allusion to Kingsley 's Westward Ho! (apart...

Marshall's prediction proved true: CMT 's audience disappeared as the Victorian age ended. However, the Dictionary of Literary Biography acknowledges that her successful introduction of imaginative richness into didactic literature influenced other authors and established...

The rose-leaves (i.e. petals) of Brownies and Rose-Leaves are said to come from the pot-pourri jar maintained by Mother Carey. (RW does not explain who this is, for as she says, dear Charles Kingsley

Relaying this account in his biography of JSW , Oliver Bainbridge wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade , Charles and Henry Kingsley

It was praised in the Athenæum, and was the last book read by Lord Raglan before his death in the Crimea the year after its publication.Frances Isabella Duberly , who read it...

She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne (whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton , and Charles Kingsley (all of...

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell