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...
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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...
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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 re...
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In the following excerpted anonymous review, the critic connects Henry Kingsley's writing to that of his older brother Charles, sarcastically commenting on the virtues of familial similarities ...
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In the following essay, Croft perceives Geoffry Hamlyn as a study of English outsiders in Australia who, rather than adapting to their new environment, exert their own culture upon it.
When Henry K...
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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...
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In the following essay, Lee analyzes the gendered discourse of insanity in The Hillyars and the Burtons.
Henry Kingsley's status in Australian literary history rests primarily upon the forma...
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In the following anonymous review, the critic denounces The Hillyars and Burtons as illogical.
“The old question between love and duty,” says the author in his Preface, “I have...
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In the following anonymous review, the critic applauds a reprinting of Kingsley's novels and responds to negative criticism published in The Saturday Review.
We heartily welcome this tastefu...
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In the following essay, Sadleir offers a brief overview of Kingsley's life and explores reactions to his writing, linking Kingsley's personal struggles with his disappointing literary ca...
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In the following introduction to Ravenshoe, Scheuerle recounts Kingsley's life and writings, and gives a generally positive assessment of the novel.
One evening in the summer of 1961, my wif...
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In the following essay, Wellings studies critical reaction to Kingsley's novels, and responds to charges that the novel Ravenshoe is characterized by careless writing and lack of structure.
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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 Geoffr...
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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 occasio...
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In the following essay, Wilkes observes that the enduring quality of Geoffry Hamlyn lies in Kingsley's mythic treatment of the Australian landscape in the novel.
Of all the Australian novels...
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Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley
Critical Essay by The Saturday Review
