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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES KINGSLEY! Complete in 13-volumes . Bound in the original leather bindings. Printed in 1893. This is an absolutely gorgeous set. With INTRICATE LEATHER FLORAL INLAYS. These bindings would have been extremely costly to produce. High quality leather binding with raised hubs and intricate leather floral detailing. Eversley Edition. Printed in 1893. This set is over 120 years old. Complete in 13-volumes, as issued, as is standard, and is inclusive of all of Kingsley's works. Complete in 11 volumes + his Poems in 2 volumes. 11 volumes is standard for Kingsley's Works. Together with his Poems in 2 additional volumes. Complete in 13 volumes. Bound in quality leather bindings. These are the original bindings. Marbled end papers. Printed on quality paper, with wide margins. London, Macmillan and Co. Printed in 1893. In Very Good, near Fine condition overall with some abrasion and wear to the bindings. The leather is very fresh and supple. The hinges 100% fully and strongly attached with some light abrasion and scuffing. Printed on quality paper, near free of any trace of foxing. This is a gorgeous and highly giftable set. All hinges attached and sound, with some rubbing and abrasion. In VERY GOOD condition. Very fresh and well-preserved. An early bookplate, no writing. Set is complete in 13 total volumes. 'Yeast', 'Hypatia', 'Westward Ho!', 'Two Years Ago', 'Alton Locke', 'Hereward The Wake', et al... This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any fine library. In addition to their shelf presence, Rare & Antiquarian Books make a great investment. I always pack very securely to help ensure safe handling during transit. All books are individually wrapped and professionally padded. Charles Kingsley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the British yacht designer, see Charles Kingsley (yacht designer) . For the English tennis player, see Charles Kingsley (tennis) . The Reverend Charles Kingsley Born 12 June 1819 Holne , Devon, England Died 23 January 1875 (aged 55) Eversley , Hampshire, England Occupation Clergyman, historian, novelist Nationality English Alma mater King's College London Magdalene College, Cambridge Period 19th century Genre Social Christianity Literary movement Christian socialism Spouse Frances Eliza Grenfell Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England , a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism , the working men's college , and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era . He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin . [1] He was also the uncle of traveller and scientist Mary Kingsley . Contents 1 Life and character 2 Influences and works 3 Views 3.1 Anglo-Saxonism 3.2 Hibernophobia 4 Legacy 5 Published works 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links Caricature by Adriano Cecioni published in Vanity Fair in 1872. Kingsley was born in Holne , Devon , the elder of two sons of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary Lucas Kingsley. His brother Henry Kingsley and his sister Charlotte Chanter also became writers. He spent his childhood in Clovelly , Devon, where his father was Curate 1826–1832 and Rector 1832–1836, [2] and at Barnack , Northamptonshire and was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School [3] before studying at King's College London , and the University of Cambridge. Charles entered Magdalene College, Cambridge , in 1838, and graduated in 1842. [4] He chose to pursue a ministry in the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire. In 1859 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria . [5] [6] In 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. [5] [6] In 1861 he became a private tutor to the Prince of Wales . [5] In 1869 Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and, from 1870 to 1873, was a canon of Chester Cathedral . While in Chester he founded the Chester Society for Natural Science, Literature and Art, which played an important part in the establishment of the Grosvenor Museum . [7] In 1872 he accepted the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute and became its 19th President. [8] In 1873 he was made a canon of Westminster Abbey . [5] Kingsley died in 1875 and was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Eversley . Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , Charles Dickens , John Tyndall , and Alfred Tennyson , where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre 's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee . One of his daughters, Mary St Leger Kingsley, became known as a novelist under the pseudonym " Lucas Malet ". [6] Kingsley's life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life . [6] Kingsley also received letters from Thomas Huxley in 1860 and later in 1863, discussing Huxley's early ideas on agnosticism . Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology , and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward the Wake (1865) and Westward Ho! (1855). Kingsley He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to welcome Charles Darwin 's book On the Origin of Species . He had been sent an advance review copy and in his response of 18 November 1859 (four days before the book went on sale) stated that he had "long since, from watching the crossing of domesticated animals and plants, learnt to disbelieve the dogma of the permanence of species." [9] Darwin added an edited version of Kingsley's closing remarks to the next edition of his book, stating that "A celebrated author and divine has written to me that 'he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws'." [10] When a heated dispute lasting three years developed over human evolution , Kingsley gently satirised the debate, known as the Great Hippocampus Question , as the "Great Hippopotamus Question". Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863), a tale about a chimney sweep , which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. The story mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over human origins, rearranging his earlier satire as the "great hippopotamus test". The book won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His chief power as a novelist lay in his descriptive faculties. The descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho! , of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia , of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago , are brilliant; and the American scenery is even more vividly and more truthfully described when he had seen it only by the eye of his imagination than in his work At Last , which was written after he had visited the tropics. His sympathy with children taught him how to gain their interest. His version of the old Greek stories entitled The Heroes , and Water-babies and Madam How and Lady Why , in which he deals with popular natural history, take high rank among books for children. [6] Kingsley was influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice , and was close to many Victorian thinkers and writers, including the Scottish writer George MacDonald . Kingsley was highly critical of Roman Catholicism and his argument, in print, with John Henry Newman , accusing him of untruthfulness and deceit, prompted the latter to write his Apologia Pro Vita Sua . [11] Kingsley was accused of racism towards the Roman Catholic Irish poor [11] and wrote in a letter to his wife from Ireland in 1860, "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country [Ireland]...to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black one would not see it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours." [12] Kingsley also wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons. Kingsley coined the term pteridomania in his 1855 book Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore . [13] Kingsley was a fervent Anglo-Saxonist , [14] and was considered an important propenent of the ideology, particularly in the 1840's. [15] He proposed that the English people were "essentially a Teutonic race, blood-kin to the Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians". [16] Kingsley suggested that there was a "strong Norse element in Teutonism and Anglo-Saxonism". Mixing mythology and Christianity, he blended Protestantism of the day with the Old Norse religion , saying that the Church of England was "wonderfully and mysteriously fitted for the souls of a free Norse-Saxon race". He believed the ancestors of Anglo-Saxons , Norse people and Germanic peoples had physically fought beside the god Odin , and that the British monarchy of his time was genetically descended from him. [17] Kingsley held bigoted views of Irish people, and has been described as both rabid and viruently anti-Irish . [18] [19] Visiting County Sligo , Ireland, he wrote a letter from Markree Castle : [20] “ I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country...to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black one would not see it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours. ” — Cambridge historian Charles Kingsley, correspondence to his wife, 1860 A statue of Charles Kingsley at Bideford , Devon (UK) Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway . A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him. A hotel opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury , London, was named after Kingsley. The hotel was founded by teetotallers who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists and is now known as The Kingsley by Thistle . [21] In 1905 the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda : the work was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had been educated at Bristol Grammar School. Yeast , a novel (1848) Saint's Tragedy (1848), a drama Alton Locke , a novel (1849) Twenty-five Village Sermons (1849) Cheap Clothes and Nasty (1850) Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers (1852) Sermons on National Subjects (1st series, 1852) Hypatia , a novel (1853) Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore (1855) Sermons on National Subjects (2nd series, 1854) Alexandria and her Schools (1854) Westward Ho! , a novel (1855) Sermons for the Times (1855) The Heroes, Greek fairy tales (1856) Two Years Ago , a novel (1857) Andromeda and other Poems (1858) The Good News of God , sermons (1859) Miscellanies (1859) Limits of Exact Science applied to History (Inaugural lectures, 1860) Town and Country Sermons (1861) Sermons on the Pentateuch (1863) The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863) The Roman and the Teuton (1864) David and other Sermons (1866) Hereward the Wake: "Last of the English" , a novel (London: Macmillan, 1866) The Ancient Régime (Lectures at the Royal Institution, 1867) Water of Life and other Sermons (1867) The Hermits (1869) Madam How and Lady Why (1869) At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies (1871) Town Geology (1872) Discipline and other Sermons (1872) Prose Idylls (1873) Plays and Puritans (1873) Health and Education (1874) Westminster Sermons (1874) Lectures delivered in America (1875) [6] The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see The Water Babies . This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . ( February 2016 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The Water-Babies, a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby The Water Babies (illustrated by Linley Samboune), Macmillan & Co., London 1885 Author Charles Kingsley Language English Genre Satire Published London: Macmillan, 1863 [1] Media type Book "Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome." Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith c. 1916. Charcoal, water, and oil. Digitally restored. "Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid " Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith c. 1916. Charcoal, water, and oil. Digitally restored. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley . Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine , it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin 's The Origin of Species . The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Catholics, and Americans. [2] Contents 1 Story 2 Interpretation 3 Adaptations 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep , who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", [3] as he is told by a caddisfly —an insect that sheds its skin—and begins his moral education . The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption , though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour , among other themes. Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoys the community of other water-babies once he proves himself a moral creature. The major spiritual leaders in his new world are the fairies Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby (a reference to the Golden Rule ), Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, and Mother Carey. Weekly, Tom is allowed the company of Ellie, who became a water-baby after he did. Grimes, his old master, drowns as well, and in his final adventure, Tom travels to the end of the world to attempt to help the man where he is being punished for his misdeeds. Tom helps Grimes to find repentance, and Grimes will be given a second chance if he can successfully perform a final penance. By proving his willingness to do things he does not like, if they are the right things to do, Tom earns himself a return to human form, and becomes "a great man of science" who "can plan railways, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth". He and Ellie are united, although the book states (perhaps jokingly) that they never marry, claiming that in fairy tales, no one beneath the rank of prince and princess ever marries. The book ends with the caveat that it is only a fairy tale, and the reader is to believe none of it, "even if it is true." In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable . In it, Kingsley expresses many of the common prejudices of that time period, and the book includes dismissive or insulting references to Americans, [4] Jews , [5] blacks , [6] and Catholics [7] particularly the Irish . [8] [9] These views may have played a role in the book's gradual fall from popularity. The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour , [10] as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day [11] in their response to Charles Darwin 's ideas on evolution , which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise. He had been sent an advance review copy of On the Origin of Species , and wrote in his response of 18 November 1859 (four days before the book went on sale) that he had "long since, from watching the crossing of domesticated animals and plants, learnt to disbelieve the dogma of the permanence of species," and had "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of Deity, to believe that He created primal forms capable of self development into all forms needful pro tempore and pro loco , as to believe that He required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas which He Himself had made", asking "whether the former be not the loftier thought." [12] In the book, for example, Kingsley argues that no person is qualified to say that something that they have never seen (like a human soul or a water baby) does not exist. In his Origin of Species, Darwin mentions that, like many others at the time, he thought that changed habits produce an inherited effect, a concept now known as Lamarckism . [13] In The Water Babies , Kingsley tells of a group of humans called the Doasyoulikes who are allowed to do "whatever they like" so gradually lose the power of speech, degenerate into gorillas , and are shot by the African explorer Paul Du Chaillu . He refers to the movement to end slavery in mentioning that one of the gorillas shot by Du Chaillu "remembered that his ancestors had once been men, and tried to say, ' Am I Not A Man And A Brother ?', but had forgotten how to use his tongue." [14] Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley inspect a water baby in Linley Sambourne 's 1885 illustration. The Water Babies alludes to debates among biologists of its day, satirising what Kingsley had previously dubbed the Great Hippocampus Question as the "Great hippopotamus test." At various times the text refers to "Sir Roderick Murchison , Professor (Richard) Owen , Professor (Thomas Henry) Huxley , (and) Mr. Darwin", and thus they become explicitly part of the story. In the accompanying illustrations by Linley Sambourne , Huxley and Owen are caricatured, studying a captured water baby. In 1892 Thomas Henry Huxley's five-year-old grandson Julian saw this engraving and wrote his grandfather a letter asking: Huxley wrote back a letter (later evoked by the New York Sun ' s " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " in 1897): The book was adapted into an animated film The Water Babies in 1978 starring James Mason , Bernard Cribbins and Billie Whitelaw . Though many of the main elements are there, the movie's storyline differs substantially from the book, with a new sub-plot involving Tom saving the Water-Babies from imprisonment by a kingdom of sharks. It was also adapted into a musical theatre version produced at the Garrick Theatre in London, in 1902. The adaptation was described as a "fairy play", by Rutland Barrington , with music by Frederick Rosse , Albert Fox, and Alfred Cellier . [16] The book was also produced as a play by Jason Carr and Gary Yershon , mounted at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003, directed by Jeremy Sams , starring Louise Gold , Joe McGann , Katherine O'Shea, and Neil McDermott. [ citation needed ] The story was also adapted into a radio series (BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 1998) [17] featuring Timothy West , Julia McKenzie , and Oliver Peace as Tom. A 2013 update for BBC Radio 4 written by Paul Farley and directed by Emma Harding brought the tale to a newer age, with Tomi having been trafficked from Nigeria as a child labourer . [18] In 2014 it was adapted into a musical by Fiona Ross and Sue Colverd, with music by David Last. A shortened version premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 [19] , with the full version being produced at the Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham in 2015 by performing arts students of the University of Gloucestershire . It is due to be performed, again by students, in the same venue in June 2019. [20] Westward Ho! (novel) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the novel by Charles Kingsley. For the seaside village in Devon, see Westward Ho! Westward, Ho! Cover of an 1899 edition by Frederick Warne & Co Author Charles Kingsley Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Adventure fiction Publication date 1855 Pages 378 ISBN 1500778745 OCLC 219787413 Text Westward, Ho! at Wikisource Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley . The novel was based on the adventures of Elizabethan corsair Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Sir Francis Drake , Sir Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World , where they battle with the Spanish . Contents 1 Plot 2 Title 3 Themes 4 Adaptations 5 Legacy 6 References 7 External links Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I , Westward Ho! follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh ( Amyas Preston ), an unruly child who as a young man follows Francis Drake to sea. Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone else; much of the novel involves the kidnap of Rose by a Spaniard . Amyas spends time in the Caribbean coasts of Venezuela seeking gold, and eventually returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada , finding his true love, the beautiful Indian maiden Ayacanora, in the process; yet fate had blundered and brought misfortune into Amyas's life, for not only had he been blinded by a freak bolt of lightning at sea, but he also loses his brother Frank Leigh and Rose Salterne, who were caught by the Spaniards and burnt at the stake by the Inquisition . Frontispiece by Walter Sydney Stacey from an 1899 edition The title of the book derives from the traditional call of boat-taxis on the River Thames , which would call "Eastward ho!" and "Westward ho!" to show their destination. [1] [2] "Ho!" is an interjection or a call to attract passengers, without a specific meaning besides "hey!" or "come!" [3] The title is also a nod towards the play Westward Ho! , written by John Webster and Thomas Dekker in 1604, which satirised the perils of the westward expansion of London. [1] The full title of Kingsley's novel is Westward Ho! Or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, Rendered into Modern English by Charles Kingsley . This elaborate title is intended to reflect the mock-Elizabethan style of the novel. [4] Kingsley dedicated the novel to Sir James Brooke , Rajah of Sarawak , and Bishop George Selwyn , whom he saw as modern representatives of the heroic values of the English during the Elizabethan era. Westward Ho! is a historical novel which celebrates England's victories over Spain in the Elizabethan era . The novel based its premise around the real life Preston Somers Expedition which took place in 1595. This was a daring raid in which the Spanish inland colonial city of Caracas in South America was captured and plundered by English privateers led by Amyas Preston and George Somers . Although originally a political radical, Kingsley had by the 1850s become increasingly conservative and a strong supporter of British imperialism . [4] The novel consistently emphasises the superiority of English mercantile values over those of the Spanish. [1] Although originally written for adults, its mixture of patriotism, sentiment and romance deemed it suitable for children, and it became a firm favourite of children's literature. [5] A prominent theme of the novel is the 16th-century fear of Catholic domination, [5] and this reflects Kingsley's own dislike of Catholicism. [4] The novel repeatedly shows the Protestant English correcting the worst excesses of the Spanish Jesuits and the Inquisition . [4] The novel's virulent anti-Catholicism , as well as its racist attitudes to native peoples, has made the novel less appealing to a modern audience, although it is still regarded by some as Kingsley's "liveliest, and most interesting novel." [6] 1920 edition illustrated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth . In April 1925, the book was the first novel to be adapted for radio by the BBC . [7] The first movie adaptation of the novel was a 1919 silent film, Westward Ho! , directed by Percy Nash . [8] A 1988 children's animated film, Westward Ho! , produced by Burbank Films Australia , was loosely based on Kingsley's novel. [9] The book is the inspiration behind the unusual name of the village of Westward Ho! in Devon, the only place name in the United Kingdom that contains an exclamation mark . [10] J.G. Ballard , in an interview with Vanora Bennett, claimed that being forced to copy lines from the novel as a punishment at the age of eight or nine was the moment he realised he would become a writer. [11] #2105