Author:Charles Kingsley
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English clergyman and novelist known for his descriptive faculties; works include the children's classic, The Water Babies and Westward Ho!; brother of Charlotte Chanter and Henry Kingsley.
The list of works below is based upon Charles Kingsley, a references guide (1981), by Styron Harris. 
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Charles Kingsley
Works
[edit]- The Saint's Tragedy (1848)
- Yeast: A Problem (1851) (transcription project)
- Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet (1850) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
- Hypatia; or, New Foes with an Old Face (1853)
- Westward Ho! (1855)
- The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (1855) IA
- Two Years Ago (1857), in 3 vols. IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
- Andromeda, and Other Poems (1858) (transcription project)
- Miscellanies (1859), in 2 vols. IA 1, IA 2
- The Water Babies (1863)
- Hereward the Wake; "Last of the English" (1866), in 2 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
- Village Sermons
- Sermons for the Times
- National Sermons. First and Second Series
- Two Years Ago, in 3 vols.
- The Heroes. Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
- Glaucus; or, Wonders of the Shore
- Phaethon
- Alexandrian Lectures
Articles Popular Science Monthly
[edit]- "The Study of Physical Science" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (August 1872)
- "Popular Geology" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (September 1872)
Poems
[edit]- "Juventus Mundi" in Littell's Living Age, 162 (2094)
- "Martin Lightfoot's Song" in Littell's Living Age, 162 (2095)
- The 'Old, Old Song'
- "The Poetry of a Root-Crop" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1876)
- "Valentine's Day, 1873" in Littell's Living Age, 136 (1753)
- "The Sands of Dee" in Weird Tales, 7 (1) (January 1926)
Works about Kingsley
[edit]- "Canon Kingsley," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
- "Kingsley, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Kingsley, Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Kingsley, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Kingsley, Charles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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