Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-C
Charles Kingsley. Photograph by Charles Watkins. Wellcome V0026646
Caricature by Adriano Cecioni published in Vanity Fair in 1872.
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A statue of Charles Kingsley at Bideford, Devon (UK)
Westward Ho! (novel)
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Westward Ho! is an 1855 historical novel written by British author Charles Kingsley, set in the Elizabethan era and written in a mock Elizabethan tone. It follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh, who se
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…labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866). Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, the elder son of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and…
Cover of an 1899 edition by Frederick Warne & Co
Frontispiece by Walter Sydney Stacey from an 1899 edition.
1920 edition illustrated with paintings by N. C. Wyeth