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)
Hypatia (novel)
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Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, and tells the story of a young monk
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…and forming 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…
1897 edition illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett
Hypatia at the feet of Philammon. Drawn by Lee Woodward Zeigler, 1899
Hypatia (1885) by Charles William Mitchell, believed to be a depiction of a scene in Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia
Pelagia and Philammon (1887) by Arthur Hacker