Author:Charles Kingsley

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Charles Kingsley
(1819–1875)
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English clergyman and novelist known for his descriptive faculties; works include the children's classic, The Water Babies and Westward Ho!; brother of Charlotte Chanter and Henry Kingsley.

The list of works below is based upon Charles Kingsley, a references guide (1981), by Styron Harris.
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Charles Kingsley

Works

  • The Saint's Tragedy (1848)
  • Yeast: A Problem (1851) (transcription project)
  • Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet (1850) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • Hypatia; or, New Foes with an Old Face (1853)
  • Westward Ho! (1855)
  • The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (1855) IA
  • Two Years Ago (1857), in 3 vols. IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • Andromeda, and Other Poems (1858) (transcription project)
  • Miscellanies (1859), in 2 vols. IA 1, IA 2
  • The Water Babies (1863)
  • Hereward the Wake; "Last of the English" (1866), in 2 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • Historical Lectures and Essays (1880) IA
    • "Alexandria and her Schools" (1854)
    • "The Ancien Regime" (1867)
    • "The First Discovery of America" (1874)
    • "Cyrus, Servant of the Lord" (1874)
    • "Ancient Civilisation" (1874)
    • "Rondelet, The Huguenot Naturalist" (1869)
    • "Vesalius, The Anatomist" (1869)
    • "Paracelsus" (1869)
    • "George Buchanan, Scholar"
  • Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (1880)
    • "Woman's Work in a Country Parish" (1855)
    • "The Science of Health" (1872)
    • "The Two Breaths" (1869)
    • "Thrift" (1869)
    • "Nausicaa in London; or, the Lower Education of Women"
    • "The Air-Mothers" (1869)
    • "The Tree of Knowledge"
    • "Great Cities and their Influence for Good and Evil" (1857)
    • "Heroism"
    • "The Massacre of the Innocents" (1859)
    • "'A mad world, my masters'" (1858)
  • Madam How and Lady Why; or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (1889)
  • Village Sermons
  • Sermons for the Times
  • National Sermons. First and Second Series
  • Two Years Ago, in 3 vols.
  • Glaucus; or, Wonders of the Shore
  • Phaethon
  • Alexandrian Lectures

Poems

Works about Kingsley


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