Brenda Colloms

FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...

While her brothers attended public school, FK was educated at home with her sisters. She read extensively in literature, history, and theology, taking a special interest in Catholicism and the Tractarian movement. Brenda Colloms claims...

Fanny's half-brother Charles Pascoe Grenfell , who had become head of the family at their father's death the year before she met Kingsley, strongly disapproved of the developing relationship between Fanny and Charles Kingsley. So...

FK 's biography remained the primary source on the life of Charles Kingsley through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; all subsequent biographies have relied on it to varying degrees. The first twentieth-century biography, Charles Kingsley...

Little is known of the details of CC 's life, except through accounts of her brothers and a brief memorial by her daughter. For the first two years of her life (or less), Charlotte lived...

As Brenda Colloms notes, FK 's memorial volumes seemed to some readers to be more in the nature of an essay in canonisation than a simple biography.FK praised her husband throughout the biography...