Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life
2 Volume Set
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- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Editor: Frances Eliza Kingsley
- Date Published: November 2011
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108034869
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Charles Kingsley (1819–75) is best remembered today as the author of the children's morality tale The Water Babies. This biography, written by his wife and published in 1877, draws on his letters to describe a man who saw his faith as being central to his life not only as an Anglican priest, but also as a historian, novelist and supporter of social reform. The two-volume work gives insights into the concerns and preoccupations of the intellectual classes of the mid-Victorian period. Volume 1 covers the period until 1856, including Kingsley's precocious childhood and his witnessing of the Bristol Riots in 1831 that led to his support for social reform in adult life. Volume 2 includes Fanny Kingsley's account of her husband's notorious controversy with J. H. Newman, provoked by an article in Macmillan's Magazine.
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108034869
- length: 1040 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 61 mm
- weight: 1.4kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Birth and parentage
2. 1830–8. Live at Clovelly
3. 1838–42. Life at Cambridge
4. 1842. Reads for Holy Orders
5. 1842–3. Curate life
6. 1844–7. Marriage
7. 1848. Publication of Saint's Tragedy
8. 1849. Winter in Devonshire
9. 1850–1. Resigns the office of clerk in orders at Chelsea
10. 1851. Letters on university reform and teetotalism
11. 1852. Strike in the iron-trade
12. 1853. The rector in his church
13. 1854. Torquay
14. 1855. Bideford
15. 1856. Winter at Farley Court. Volume 2:
16. The father in his home
17. 1857. Two Years Ago
18. 1858. Eversley work
19. 1859. Sanitary work
20. 1860. Professorship of Modern History
21. 1861–2. Cambridge
22. 1863. Fellow of the Geological Society
23. 1864–5. Illness
24. 1866–7. Cambridge
25. 1868. Attacks of the Press
26. 1869–70. Resignation of Professorship
27. 1871. Lecture on 'The Theology of the Future' at Sion College
28. 1872. Opening of Chester Cathedral nave
29. 1873–4. Harrow-on-the-Hill
30. 1874–5. Return from America
Index.
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