The complete online text of Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

Charles Kingsley attempts to integrate his scientific and spiritual ideals in the protagonist of 'Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet.' Alton Locke, the poet-tailor, is a Chartist until he is enlightened by Eleanor about the need for something more than mere political reform to cure...

Creator of psychedelic rock posters With their sinuous lettering and skulls-and-roses imagery, the Grateful Dead's album covers were as much a part of the San Francisco group's mystique as its psychedelic music. The graphic artist Alton Kelley, in partnership with Stanley Mouse (ne...