Charles Kingsley

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...

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...

EH thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare 's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. After publishing a life (that of Hugh, third Baron Delamere ) as her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MK approached George Macmillan , her uncle Charles 's publisher, with the manuscript The Bights of Benin.

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.

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...

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.

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...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

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...

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.