Charles Kingsley

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.

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...

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...