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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley . Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.

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Charles Kingsley

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  1. Charles Kingsley

  2. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.

  3. Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, the second son of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary. His brother, Henry Kingsley, also became a novelist. He spent his childhood in Clovelly, Devon and Barnackand was educated at Helston Grammar School before studying at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge. Charles entered Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1838, and graduated in 1842. He chose to pursue a ministry in the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire, and in 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.

  4. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward the Wake (1865) and Westward Ho! (1855). He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to praise Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.

  5. His concern for social reform is illustrated in his great classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863) (which won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963) a kind of fairytale about a boy chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. In The Water-Babies he developed in this literary form something of a purgatory, which runs counter to his "Anti-Roman" theology.

  6. Charles Kingsli's novel describes the real historical event which has occurred in Alexandria in 415 d.C. Mad crowd of Christian fanatics has dragged beauty-philosopher Ipatiyain church and has torn to pieces the pagan sharp oyster bowls. In an estimation of historical events and persons the person of the author – the Anglican bishop, the confessor of queen Victoria, and time of creation of the novel – the middle of the last century has affected, certainly.

  7. He has written such products as: The Roman and the Teuton (1864) David and other Sermons (1866) Hereward the Wake: "last of the English", a novel (London: Macmillan, 1866) The Ancient Régime (Lectures at the Royal Institution, 1867) Water of Life and other Sermons (1867) The Hermits (1869) Madam How and Lady Why (1869) At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies(1871) Town Geology (1872) Discipline and other Sermons (1872) Prose Idylls (1873) Plays and Puritans (1873) Health and Education (1874) Lectures delivered in America (1875)

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