Charles Kingsley

The rose-leaves (i.e. petals) of Brownies and Rose-Leaves are said to come from the pot-pourri jar maintained by Mother Carey. (RW does not explain who this is, for as she says, dear Charles Kingsley

Marshall's prediction proved true: CMT 's audience disappeared as the Victorian age ended. However, the Dictionary of Literary Biography acknowledges that her successful introduction of imaginative richness into didactic literature influenced other authors and established...

The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea, which include the title poem and the patriotic Eastward Ho! During the Russo-Turkish War. The latter's allusion to Kingsley 's Westward Ho! (apart...

Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...

When HBS later visited England she was a celebrity: crowds waited for her arrival on a Liverpool pier. Charles Kingsley said in a letter to her that her novel caused him to re-evaluate his opinion...

Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA when they were young, Edith Wharton stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother...

The Athenæum published a positive review of Constance Sherwood on 16 September 1865, claiming that GFhas written a book which no one can read without deep interest; and she has written it in an...

The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley 's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is...

The children of Charles Kingsley (whose own The Heroes, re-telling Greek mythological stories, had appeared a year before The Heroes of Asgard), were particularly keen on the Keary Norse collection. A reprint...

Charles Kingsley , to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it.

During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's...

WM was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley , Thomas Carlyle , and John Ruskin (a particularly influential discovery).

MK approached George Macmillan , her uncle Charles 's publisher, with the manuscript The Bights of Benin.

Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself.

Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman