Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)
Author of The Water Babies
About the Author
Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his show more best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Charles Kingsley
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged (Puffin Classics) (1863) 239 copies, 4 reviews
The Water Babies / Glaucus 12 copies
The Water-Babies. Told to the children by Amy Steedman. With pictures by Anne Anderson (1910) 7 copies
The song of the river 5 copies
The heroes : being the stories of the Argonauts and Theseus, from Kingsley's "Heroes." (1907) 4 copies
Alexandria and Her Schools: Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh (2007) 3 copies
Westward Ho!, Hypatia, Yeast 2 copies
The New Testament in Plain English 2 copies
Hereward's Last Fight 2 copies
Classics Illustrated: Westward Ho! 2 copies
Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Rip Van Winkle, Kidnapped, The White Company, The Black Arrow, The Deerslayer, The… (1997) 2 copies
The Water Babies (abridged) 1 copy
Kingsley's Sermons (2 vols.) 1 copy
Miscellanies 1 copy
Os Heróis do Mar - 1º Vol. 1 copy
Os Heróis do Mar - 2º Vol. 1 copy
Westward ho! — Original novel — 1 copy
"Young And Old" 1 copy
The silver torch series, no. 32, The water babies, retold, from the story by Charles Kingsley 1 copy
Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley (volume 1) historical novel: The novel was based on the adventures of Elizabethan… (2016) 1 copy
Poems of Charles Kingsley: Containing the Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, and Other Poems, 1848-1870 1 copy
The Sands of Dee 1 copy
Poems - Two Volumes 1 copy
Alton Locke / Two Years Ago 1 copy
The Water Babies - Early Reader Series #27 Retold for the Younger Reader From the Story (1500) 1 copy
From death to life: fragments of teaching to a village congregation with letters on the life after death (1887) 1 copy
Women and Politics & Limits of Exact Science as Applied to History (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) (2008) 1 copy
Village Sermons 1 copy
The Heroes # 10 1 copy
The Argonauts 1 copy
History of New York 1 copy
Tom blir et vannbarn 1 copy
Theseus 1 copy
Associated Works
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 253 copies, 1 review
A Hornbook for Witches: Stories and Poems for Halloween — Contributor — 3 copies
The princess's story book — Contributor — 1 copy
The King's Story Book — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1819-06-12
- Date of death
- 1875-01-23
- Burial location
- St Mary's Churchyard, Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Holne, Devonshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- Holne, Devonshire, England, UK
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK - Education
- Clifton School, Devonshire, England, UK
Helston Grammar School, England, UK
King's College, London, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Magdalene College) - Occupations
- curate
rector
chaplain
professor
novelist - Relationships
- Kingsley, Henry (brother)
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (niece)
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Statistics
- Works
- 138
- Also by
- 23
- Members
- 6,910
- Popularity
- #3,537
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 84
- ISBNs
- 782
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 6