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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 2,173 copies, 36 reviews
Westward Ho! 682 copies, 4 reviews
The Heroes 598 copies, 4 reviews
Madam How and Lady Why 200 copies
Hypatia 190 copies, 3 reviews
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged (Puffin Classics) 186 copies, 4 reviews
Hereward the Wake 149 copies, 4 reviews
The Water Babies/Peter Pan (Classic Library Series) 76 copies
Alton Locke 72 copies, 3 reviews
Yeast 41 copies, 1 review
Poems 30 copies
Two Years Ago 24 copies
At Last 18 copies
Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 15 copies

The Water Babies / Glaucus 10 copies

Glaucus, or The Wonders of the Shore 9 copies, 1 review

Andromeda and other poems 9 copies

Discipline and Other Sermons 9 copies

The Water Babies and Selected Poems 8 copies

True words for brave men 8 copies

The Roman and the Teuton 8 copies, 1 review

Town and Country Sermons 7 copies

Out of the Deep 6 copies

The Heroes and the Water Babies 6 copies

Westminster sermons: with a preface 6 copies

David 5 copies

Theseus. A Greek Legend Retold. 5 copies

The Hermits 5 copies

Twenty-Five Village Sermons 5 copies

Sermons for the Times 5 copies

Prose idylls, new and old 5 copies

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Also by Charles Kingsley

English Poetry, Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman (Contributor) 442 copies
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Contributor) 344 copies, 5 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (Contributor) 215 copies
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (Contributor) 174 copies, 3 reviews
Apologia pro Vita Sua [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 158 copies
Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (Author) 130 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (Contributor) 89 copies, 1 review
Mary Barton [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 54 copies, 1 review
Best in Children's Books 30 50 copies
The Junior Classics Volume 07: Stories of Courage and Heroism (Contributor) 34 copies
A Golden Land (Contributor) 33 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (Contributor) 21 copies
The Kingsleys: A Biographical Anthology (Contributor) 1 copy

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Date of death

Burial location

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

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Birthplace

Holne, Devonshire, England, UK

Place of death

Eversley, Hampshire, England, UK

Cause of death

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)

Occupations

Relationships

Kingsley, Henry (brother)

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (niece)

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Disambiguation notice

Links

Charles Kingsley at the Victorian Web

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