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...

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...

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...

Heininen, Simo, and Markku Heikkiä. Kirchengeschichte Finnlands. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002. Heino, Harri. “Religion and Churches in Finland.” Finfo 10 (1998). [Published by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,...

Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 – January 23 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east...

My mother, when vexed by some family misfortune, was wont to console herself by murmuring: "Men must work, and women must weep, and the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep." It never occurred to me, until I was fully grown, to seek...

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...