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Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life( )
Author: Kingsley, Charles
Editor: Kingsley, Frances Eliza
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
ISBN:978-1-108-03484-5
Publication Date:Nov 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $62.95
Book Description:

Best remembered for his children's tale The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) was an Anglican priest, historian, novelist and supporter of social reform. Written by his wife and drawing on his letters, this account of a varied life gives insights into the concerns and preoccupations of the mid-Victorian period.

Book Details
Pages:522
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Collections / Letters
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14 x 21.6 x 3 cm
Book Weight:0.664 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kingsley, Charles (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 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.

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