The complete online text of The Ancien Regime 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...

Christianity under the Ancien Regime, 1648-1789. By W. R. Ward. [New Approaches to European History series, 14. ] (New York: Cambridge University Press.1999. Pp. xii, 270. $54.95 hardback; $19.95 paperback.) Christianity under the Ancien Regime, the latest installment in the Cambridge series "New...

By Ciar ByrneArts and Media Correspondent The decadent fashions of 18th-century France continued to fascinate art collectors long after the French Revolution, among them the Rothschild banking dynasty. Now a collection of 75 drawings, many of them depicting the ancien regime which was...