The complete online text of Hereward, the Last of the English 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...

AN OLD English settlement that may be the lost village of Cratendune, the Fenland stronghold of folk hero Hereward the Wake, has been discovered on the edge of Ely. Despite its celebrity as the base of Hereward, who for two years held out against...

Professor Senior has officially retired from McGill University's Department of History only this year [2005], after a career in teaching there spanning some forty-two years. He was the principal author of "The Loyalists." Pioneers and Settlers of Quebec," the UELAC's teachers' educational resource...