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Charles Kingsley

Male : Clergyman and novelist. Undoubtedly a Racist. Married Frances Grenfell
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Holne Vicarage, Dartmoor, Devon

Date of Birth : 1819 Date of Death : 1875 Age : 56

Pseudonyms : Parson Lot

Other Work : Rector of Eversley, Hampshire 1844-75. Professor of Modern History at Cambridge 1860-9. Governor of Trinidad

Education : Helston GS, King's College, London & Magdalen College, Cambridge
1848-1850
(In) Politics for the People (1848 John W Parker) - [contribs under pseud of Parson Lot]
The Saint's Tragedy, or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary
(1848 John W Parker, London) - 1st Book
Yeast
(1848)
Alton Locke : Tailor & Poet - An Autobiography
(1850 Chapman & Hall)
[ Both the above two books advocating Christian Socialism]

1851-1860
Phaethon, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers
(1852 Macmillan) 100 pp. wrappers
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face
(1853 John W Parker, London) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £250
Alexandria and Her Schools
(1854 Macmillan, Cambridge)
Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore
(1855 Macmillan)
Westward Ho!, or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
(1855 Macmillan) - 3 vols (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
The Heroes, or Greek Fary Tales for My Children
(1856 Macmillan) - Author
Poems
(1856 Ticknor & Fields)
Andromeda and Other Poems
(1858 John W Parker, London)
Kingsley's Miscellanies
(1859 John W Parker, London) - 2 vols
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time
(1859 Ticknor & Fields)
Phaethos, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers
(1859 Macmillan. 3rd Ed)

1861-1870
The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures
(1864 Macmillan)
Hereward the Wake, the Last of the English
(1866 Macmillan) (1866 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
Hereward the Wake
(1870 Art-Union of London) - H C Selous
Madam How and Lady Why or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children
(1870 Strahan)
At Last
(1870)

1871-1880
At Last : A Christmas in the West Indies
(1871 Macmillan - 2 vols) (1871 Harper, NY)
Collected Poems
(1872)
Town Geology
(1872 Strahan)
Plays and Puritans, & Other Historical Essays
(1873 Macmillan)
South by West or Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico
(1874 London)
Health and Education
(1875 Daldy, Isbister, London)
His Letters & Memories : Edited by His Wife
(1877 Henry S King) - 2 vols

1881-1900
His Letters and Memories of His Life
(1883 Kegan Paul) - edited by Mrs Kingsley
(1894 Macmillan - 2 vols)
From Death to Life
(1887 Macmillan) - edited by His Wife
The Works
(1891 London) - 6 vols
Westward Ho !
(1896 Macmillan) - 2 vols. Charles E Brock
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales
(c1900 Ernest Nister) - T A Robertson

1901 Onwards
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales
(1907 Routledge) - Jessie M King
Two Years Ago
(1911 Macmillan)
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales
(1912 Warner for the Medici Society, London) - 500. W Russell Flint
Offered in 1999 for £400
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales
(1915 A & C Black) - Sybil Tawse
The Tutor's Story : An Unpublished Novel revised and completed by His Daughter
(1916 Smith Elder)
Westward Ho !
(1920 Scribner NY) - N C Wyeth
Westward Ho !
(1923 Dent) - E A Cox
Westward Ho !
(1947 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson

EDITIONS OF 'THE WATER BABIES'
A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
19thC
1863 Macmillan - J Noel Paton. Ltd Ed 200 containing the verse 'L'Envoi"
1863 Macmillan - as above, later printing minus the verse
1865 Macmillan - 100 illus by Linley Sambourne
1869 Macmillan - J Noel Paton & Percival Skelton
1886 Macmillan : Linley Sambourne

1901-1920
1900 A Wessell, NY - G Wright
1905 TC & EC Jack - Katherine Cameron
1907 Nister - 6 colour plates & 70 half tone. Arthur A Dixon
1908 Dent - 12 colour plates by Margaret Tarrant
1908 Headley Bros - George Soper
1909 Blackie - Alice B Woodward
1909 Macmillan - Warwick Goble. + Ltd Ed 260 numbered copies in slipcase
1909 Macmillan - Warwick Goble
1910 Chapman & Hall - 24 colour plates by Ethel Everett
1915 Constable, UK & Houghton Mifflin, US - W Heath Robinson
1915 Raphael Tuck - Mabel Lucie Attwell. Abridged version
1919 J A Sharp - Gordon Robinson
1916 Dodd, Mead NY - Jessie Willcox Smith. 12 colour plates
1919 Hodder & Stoughton - as above. UK 1st
1920 OUP - A E Jackson

After 1921
c1930 H & S/Boots Library - as above
1922 Ward Lock - 48 colour plates by Harry Theaker
1924 Jack - Anne Anderson
1927 Dent - Margaret Tarrant
1928 A & C Black - Muriel Dawson
1957 Dent - 4 colour plates & b/w illus Rosalie K Fry
1961 Gollancz - Harold Jones
1981 H & S - Reproduction of original UK 1919 version - Jessie Willcox Smith
Ltd Ed 500 numbered in slipcase
[Filmed in 1978]

READING
Dean A P Stanley : Funeral Sermon for Charles Kingsley
(1875 PP)
Reginald C Davenport : A Brief Account of the Kingsley Family
(1911 PP)
W Henry Brown : Charles Kingsley - The Work and Influence of Parson Lot
(1924 Co-op Union, Manchester)
Stanley E Baldwin : Charles Kingsley
(1934 Cornell UP)
Margaret Farraud Thorp : Charles Kingsley 1819-1875
(1937 Princeton UP)
Crusader
(Charles D Boltwood) : Logic of Eternal Life; Spirit Revelation Unveils the Bible;
Exaltation and Woman; Messages of Charles Kingsley; Spirit Sermons of 1940;
Deathless Freedom
(c1940 PP) - 6 vols
[Crusader, a medium, claimed he had received these revelations about
the Bible from Charles Kingsley]

Guy Kendall : Charles Kingsley and His Ideas
(1947 Hutchinson)
Una Pope-Hennessy : Canon Charles Kingsley - A Biography
(1948 Chatto & Windus)
(Ed) R B Martin : Charles Kingsley's American Notes - Letters from a Lecture Tour 1874 (1958 Princeton)
R B Martin : The Dust of Combat - A Life of Charles Kingsley
(1959 Edward Arnold)
G Egner : Apologia pro Charles Kingsley
(1969 Sheed & Ward)
Elspeth Huxley : The Kingsleys - A Biographical Anthology
(1973 Allen & Unwin)
Susan Chitty : The Beast and the Monk - A Life of Charles Kingsley
(1974 Hodder & Stoughton £4.95)
B Collums : Charles Kingsley - The Lion of Eversley
(1975)

Related Writers

Anne Anderson
Mabel Lucie Attwell
Ernest Nister


See also

Henry Matthew Brock
Charles Edmund Brock
Children's Illustrated Classics
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Historical Novels
William Heath Robinson
Margaret Winifred Tarrant