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Charles Kingsley

Born

in Holne, Devon, England

June 12, 1819

Died

January 23, 1875

Genre

Christian, Children's, Historical Fiction

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Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire.

He 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.

His writing shows an impulse to reconfigure social realities into dream geographies through Christian idealism. ...more

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Charles Kingsley’s books

Average rating: 3.45 · 12,546 ratings · 1,069 reviews · 1,112 distinct works ‧ Similar authors

	The Water Babies 3.38 avg rating — 9,709 ratings — published 1863 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children 3.77 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1855 — 656 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough 3.61 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1855 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madam How and Lady Why 3.45 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1870 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hypatia 3.39 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1848 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hereward, the Last of the English 3.72 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1865 — 375 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography 3.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1850 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water Babies/Peter Pan by Charles Kingsley, J.M. Barrie 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and Politics 3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	David: Five Sermons 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Charles Kingsley (?)

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
― Charles Kingsley

tags: friendship

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“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”
― Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

tags: fantasy, imagination, inspirational, spiritual, wisdom

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“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.”
― Charles Kingsley

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Polls

This is the Poll for the July Classics Read.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

19 votes, 18.4%

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

12 votes, 11.7%

Persuasion by Jane Austen

10 votes, 9.7%

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

10 votes, 9.7%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

9 votes, 8.7%

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

9 votes, 8.7%

Dracula by Bram Stoker

7 votes, 6.8%

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

7 votes, 6.8%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

7 votes, 6.8%

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

5 votes, 4.9%

Germinal by Émile Zola

4 votes, 3.9%

Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough by Charles Kingsley

2 votes, 1.9%

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

2 votes, 1.9%

103 total votes

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