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Charles Kingsley

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born

June 12, 1819 in Holne, Devon, The United Kingdom

died

January 23, 1875

gender

male

website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley

genre

Children's Books, 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.

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Books by Charles Kingsley

Average rating: 3.39 · 1,981 ratings · 169 reviews · 178 distinct works

	The Water Babies 3.38 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1863 — 110 editions	My rating:
	Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon~ in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1855 — 74 editions	My rating:
	The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children 3.37 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1909 — 58 editions	My rating:
	Hereward, the Last of the English 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1865 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, Jane Carruth, Anne Grahame Johnstone 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography 2.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1850 — 43 editions	My rating:
	The Argonauts 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Hereward the Wake (Volume 1) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Greek Fairy Tale of Perseus 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1864 — 8 editions	My rating:

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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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“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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“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

tags: fantasy , imagination , inspirational , spiritual , wisdom

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