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...The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to ach...

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...The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though some of the author's opinions are very dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a cl...

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...Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief power lay in his...

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...Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenou...

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...e wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumely. The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the soothsayer La Masque who shows him the vision of a beautiful young lady. Falling madly in love with her, he is astonished to find her only a short time later and saves her from being buried alive. He takes...

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...vey. Journal of Epidemiology, Community and Health, Vol. 53, 144-148. 54. Kingsley Chandrasekaran and Julia Isaac (2000) Inter-caste Marriage Fa...

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...rth Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Li...

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...nes, Saint Tarcisius and Saint Sebastian. Cardinal Wiseman wrote Fabiola in part as an answer to the vigorously anti-Catholic book Hypatia by Charles Kingsley. The novel was mainly aimed at the embattled Catholic minority in England, who had recently emerged from a half-illegal status. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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...e U.S. Patent No. 6,368,227 (issued Apr. 9, 2002). 70. See Posting of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes to Gear for Geeks, Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellec...

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...” Journal of Epidemiology, Community and Health, 53 (1999) 144- 148. 47. Kingsley, C., and Isaac, J., “Inter-caste Marriage Favoured: A Study of Pr...

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...er of the editorial staff of the Providence Journal. '75—Prof. J. Sterling Kingsley, Sc. D., of Tufts college, has been granted a year's leave of abse...

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...plot. I might almost say it was the whole. A few reminiscences of Poe, Defoe, and Washington Irving, a copy of Johnson’s Bucca- neers, the name of the...

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...but it was not at all grand, and Miss Alden appeared to rise to a perception of this fact. “I am afraid it seems to you very rough,” she said. “It’s n...

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... and then one seems to have a glimpse of something re- ally living—in Mary Kingsley’s buoyant work, for instance— and even that may be no more than my...

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... appear unduly clumsy and in earnest. “‘Be good, sweet maid’—I thought Mr. Kingsley and my Aunt were now obsolete.” “One can be very nice without havi...

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...nt of St. Magdalen College, and bears plenty of the yellow cow-wheat which Kingsley holds as the mark of primeval waste-land; but it is not exceptiona... ...tes).—This brisk little being Kitty Wren is to be seen everywhere. Whether Kingsley’s theory is right that the little birds roll themselves into a bal...

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... *Since traced by many obliging correspondents to the gal- lery of Charles Kingsley. 108 Robert Louis Stevenson effect of night, of any flowing water...

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...s great- grandfather, John Jenkin. This John Jenkin, a grandson of Damaris Kingsley, of the family of ‘Westward Ho!’ was born in 1727, and married Eli...

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...it, when I was writing T. I., as a mine for pirate tips. T. I. came out of Kingsley’s at last, where I got the Dead Man’s Chest – and that was the see...

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...gerow Marks of angels’ feet; Epics in each pebble Underneath our feet. —C. Kingsley. “DRAWING? Well done, Cherie! That’s a jolly little beggar; quite ...

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... met with in yet other dreamy states. Such feelings as these which Charles Kingsley describes are surely far from being uncommon, especially in youth:... ...began by my first recovering the power of touch, and then by [238] Charles Kingsley’s Life, i. 55, quoted by Inge: Christian Mysticism, London, 1899, ...