Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. Constable.
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Cultural formation | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms
describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic... |
Education | Fanny Kingsley | While her brothers attended public school, FK
was educated at home with her sisters. She read extensively in literature, history, and theology, taking a special interest in Catholicism and the Tractarian movement. Brenda Colloms
claims... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | Fanny's half-brother Charles Pascoe Grenfell
, who had become head of the family at their father's death the year before she met Kingsley, strongly disapproved of the developing relationship between Fanny and Charles Kingsley. So... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Fanny Kingsley | FK
's biography remained the primary source on the life of Charles Kingsley through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; all subsequent biographies have relied on it to varying degrees. The first twentieth-century biography, Charles Kingsley... |
Residence | Charlotte Chanter | Little is known of the details of CC
's life, except through accounts of her brothers and a brief memorial by her daughter. For the first two years of her life (or less), Charlotte lived... |
Textual Features | Fanny Kingsley |
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