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Charles Kingsley (12th June 1819 – 23rd January 1875) Author of The Water Babies

One of the most famous Victorian authors and books is the The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. I thought it would be of interest to write about his life works. Charles Kingsley

was an English clergyman, University Professor, Historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West country and Hampshire. He was the eldest child of Revd. Charles Kingsley and Mary Lucas. Charles Kingsley was born on 12th June 1819 at Holne vicarage, Devonshire, England. After studying at Magdalene College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1842. In 1844 he became vicar for Eversley in Hampshire. On 10th January 1844 he married Frances Eliza Grenfell with whom he would have four children.

In 1854 Kingsley helped establish Working Men’s College. Westward Ho! was published a year later. The Crimean War was raging and England delighted in his adventure/romance on the Spanish Main. Kingsley also wrote fiction for children including The Heroes or; Greek Fairy tales for my Children (1856) and Madam How and Lady Why (1868).

In 1863 Kingsley published his most famous book, The Water Babies. The book, written for his youngest son, tells the story of a young chimney-sweep, who runs away from his brutal employer. In his flight he falls into a river and is transformed into a water baby. Thereafter, in the river and in the seas, he meets all sorts of creatures and learns a series of moral lessons.

In 1859 he was appointed chaplain to the Queen, and a year later became part time professor of modern history at Cambridge until 1869. Hereward the Wake was published in 1866. In 1873 he was appointed canon of Westminster Abbey. Kingsley died at Eversley in 1875.

Bibliography

• Saint’s Tragedy, a drama

• Alton Locke, a novel (1849)

• Yeast, a novel (1849)

• Twenty-five Village Sermons (1849)

• Cheap Clothes and Nasty (1850)

• Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers (1852)

• Sermons on National Subjects (1st series, 1852)

• Hypatia, a novel (1853)

• Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore (1855)

• Sermons on National Subjects (2nd series, 1854)

• Alexandria and her Schools (I854)

• Westward Ho!, a novel (1855)

• Sermons for the Times (1855)

• The Heroes, Greek fairy tales (1856)

• Two Years Ago, a novel (1857)

• Andromeda and other Poems (1858)

• The Good News of God, sermons (1859)

• Miscellanies (1859)

• Limits of Exact Science applied to History (Inaugural Lectures, 1860)

• Town and Country Sermons (1861)

• Sermons on the Pentateuch (1863)

• The Water-Babies (1863)

• The Roman and the Teuton (1864)

• David and other Sermons (1866)

• Hereward the Wake, a novel (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)

• Westminster Sermons (1874)

• Lectures delivered in America (1875)

Charles Kingsley’s novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a town by the same name—the only place name in England which contains an exclamation mark—and even inspired the construction of a railway, the Bideford, Westward Ho! And Appledore Railway. Few authors can have had such a significant effect upon the area which they eulogised. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named for him and it was also opened by him.

A hotel opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, was named after Kingsley. It still exists, but changed name in 2001 to the Thistle Bloomsbury. The original reasons for the chosen name was that the hotel was opened by teetotallers who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. Charles Kingsley died on January 23rd 1875.

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