The Charles Kingsley Page

( 1819 - 1875 )

Major Works
Saint's Tragedy ( 1848 ).
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet ( 1850; 1856; 1862 ).
Yeast ( 1851 ).
Phaethon ( 1852 ).
Hypatia: New Foes with an Old Face ( 1853 ).
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore ( 1855 ).
Westward Ho ! Or, The Voyages and Adventurers of Sir Amyas Leigh ( 1855 ). A historical novel set in Elizabethan times.
The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children ( 1856 ).
Two Years Ago ( 1857 ).
Andromeda ( 1858 ).
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for Land Babies ( 1863 ). Available in Penguin and Oxford World's Classics
Hereward the Wake ( 1866 ).
At Last; A Christmas in the West Indies ( 1871 ).
Poems ( 1872; 1884 ).
Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by Frances Kingsley. Scribner's, 1877.

About Kingsley
Frances E. Kingsley, Robert B. Martin, The Dust of Combat: A Life of Kingsley. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Una Pope-Hennessy, Canon Charles Kingsley. Macmillan, 1948.
Charles Kingsley from The Victorian Web.

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