Henry Kingsley wrote some very bad novels, and his life appears to have been similarly disorganized. There are, however, occasional flashes of good writing in some of his earlier books, written before the scandals of his life caught up with him. The...

The English writer Henry Kingsley published twenty works, most of them novels. Although only a minority of Kingsley's fiction is set in Australia, they are his earliest and most important works and reflect the time he spent in Australia. He is known in...

Henry Kingsley (1830-1876), the younger brother of famed novelist Charles Kingsley, showed signs of brilliance in his early works, but the majority of the twenty novels he published were either panned or simply ignored. The Recollections of Geoffrey...

Wayne A. Kingsley October 14, 2004 Wayne A. Kingsley, 66, of 115 Roxbury Rd., died peacefully at his residence Thursday, October 14, 2004, following a coronary attack. Born in Oneida Castle on January 3, 1938, he was the son of Burton F....

George P. Kingsley kicked off the Virginia steeplechase season with back-to-back victories yesterday at the Casanova Hunt Point to Point Races in Fauquier County. Kingsley rode James Branscome's 5-year-old gray Trillora Key to victory in the Rogue's Road Novice Timber and then clinched...

In the following excerpt, Barnes presents an introductory overview of Kingsley's life and fiction, followed by a largely thematic examination of his major Australian novels, particularly Geoffry Hamlyn.

In the following essay, Scheuerle focuses on Kingsley's novels of the mid to late 1860s, arguing that these works exhibit a general decline into literary absurdity and carelessness, but occasionally demonstrate artistic merit, as in Leighton Court and The Hillyars and the Burtons.

In the following essay, Dixon interprets Geoffry Hamlyn within the symbolic and aesthetic contexts of landscape art, describing the work as a historical novel and a “sympathetic social document.”