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Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)

Author of The Water Babies

Includes the names: charles kingley, Charles Kingsley, Charlie Kingsley, CHARKES KINGSLEY, Charles Kinglsey, Charles K. Kingsley, Rev. Charles Kingsley, Rev. Charles et al Kingsley

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Works by Charles Kingsley

The Water Babies 1,931 copies, 35 reviews
Westward Ho! 630 copies, 4 reviews
The Heroes 506 copies, 3 reviews
Hypatia 181 copies, 2 reviews
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged (Puffin Classics) 174 copies, 4 reviews
Madam How and Lady Why 145 copies
Hereward the Wake 134 copies, 4 reviews
The Water Babies/Peter Pan (Classic Library Series) 69 copies
Alton Locke 69 copies, 2 reviews
Yeast 40 copies, 1 review
Poems 27 copies
Two Years Ago 21 copies
At Last 17 copies
Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 15 copies

The Water Babies / Glaucus 10 copies

Andromeda and other poems 9 copies

Discipline and Other Sermons 9 copies

The Water Babies and Selected Poems 8 copies

Glaucus, or The Wonders of the Shore 8 copies, 1 review

The Roman and the Teuton 8 copies, 1 review

True words for brave men 7 copies

The Heroes and the Water Babies 6 copies

Out of the Deep 6 copies

Two Years Ago (vol. 1) 5 copies, 1 review

Prose idylls, new and old 5 copies

Westminster sermons: with a preface 5 copies

The Hermits 5 copies

Plays and Puritans 4 copies

Historical Lectures and Essays 4 copies

David 4 copies

The Water of Life and Other Sermons 4 copies

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Also by Charles Kingsley

English Poetry, Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman (Contributor) 416 copies
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Contributor) 324 copies, 5 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (Contributor) 205 copies
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (Contributor) 151 copies, 3 reviews
Apologia pro Vita Sua [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 148 copies
Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (Author) 116 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (Contributor) 86 copies, 1 review
Mary Barton [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Best in Children's Books 30 42 copies
A Golden Land (Contributor) 32 copies
The Junior Classics Volume 07: Stories of Courage and Heroism (Contributor) 29 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (Contributor) 19 copies
The Kingsleys: A Biographical Anthology (Contributor) 1 copy

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St Mary's Churchyard, Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK

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Birthplace

Holne, Devonshire, England, UK

Place of death

Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK

Places of residence

Holne, Devonshire, England, UK

Chelsea, London, England, UK

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK

Education

Clifton School, Devonshire, England, UK

Helston Grammar School, England, UK

King's College, London, England, UK

University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)

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Kingsley, Henry (brother)

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (niece)

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Charles Kingsley at the Victorian Web

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