Charles Kingsley

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Standard Name: Kingsley, Charles,, 1819 - 1875

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Intertextuality and Influence John Strange Winter
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
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Yonge
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.
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House.
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Frances Isabella Duberly , who read it...
Leisure and Society Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
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on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
Charles Kingsley , to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Literary responses Harriet Beecher Stowe
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...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
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...
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
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...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
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...
Literary responses Annie Keary
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.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
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A reprint...
Literary Setting Geraldine Jewsbury
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...
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/.
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.
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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.
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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
Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
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shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman

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