The complete online text of Historical Lectures and Essays 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...

In the modern history of Czech music we find certain initiation periods characterised by the concentrated development of new movements. These periods were first and foremost the eighteen-nineties (or turn of the century), the twenties and the sixties. The turn of the century...

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