Fanny Kingsley

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Standard Name: Kingsley, Fanny
Birth Name: Frances Eliza Grenfell
Fanny Kingsley 's literary activity centres around the life of her husband, the writer and clergyman Charles Kingsley. She edited his letters for publication after his death, as well as several volumes of his religious writings. Her biography of him was wildly successful in the 1870s and 1880s, and remained continuously in print until 1983.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
under Charles Kingsley, Letters and Memories of His Life
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
under Kingsley, Frances Eliza

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emma Marshall
When EM worried about her growing sons losing the religion of their childhood, Fanny Kingsley advised her, Let the religion wait. Think of bodily health and chivalry to women first.
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
142
As adults several of...
Family and Intimate relationships James Anthony Froude
Her sister, Frances Eliza Grenfell , married Charles Kingsley , and after his death became his editor and biographer.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Kingsley
A cousin of Mary, who was ten years older and shared the same first name (Mary St Leger Kingsley, a daughter of the Rev. Charles Kingsley and of Fanny Kingsley ) became an author, but...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucas Malet
LM 's mother, Fanny Kingsley , died of heart disease after long suffering.
Sources differ as to the exact date.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
253
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Eliza Kingsley
Family and Intimate relationships Lucas Malet
Her mother, Fanny, born Frances Eliza Grenfell , had married after an early dream of living a celibate life in an Anglican sisterhood. She published a biography of her husband after his death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Kingsley
Malet, Lucas. “Introduction”. The History of Sir Richard Calmady, edited by Talia Schaffer, University of Birmingham Press, 2003, p. ix - xxxii.
xxix n1
Friends, Associates Emma Marshall
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

Timeline

23 January 1875: Charles Kingsley, clergyman and novelist,...

Writing climate item

23 January 1875

Charles Kingsley , clergyman and novelist, husband of Fanny Kingsley and father of Mary St Leger Kingsley (who later wrote as Lucas Malet ), died at Eversley, Hampshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Texts

Kingsley, Charles, 1819 - 1875. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1877.
Kingsley, Charles. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, 2nd edition, Henry S. King & Co, 1877, 2 vols.
Kingsley, Charles. Daily Thoughts. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1884.
Kingsley, Charles. From Death to Life. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1887.
Kingsley, Charles. Out of the Deep. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Macmillan & Co, 1880, http://archive.org/details/outdeepwordsfor00kinggoog.
Kingsley, Charles. True Words for Brave Men. Editor Kingsley, Fanny, Keegan Paul & Co, 1878.