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Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages. Plot[edit] Alton Locke is the story of a young tailor-boy who has instincts and aspirations beyond the normal expectations of his working-class background. He is intensely patriotic and has ambitions to be a poet. In the course of the narrative, Alton Locke loves and struggles in vain. Physically, he is a weak man, but is able to encompass all the best emotions, along with vain longings, wild hopes, and a righteous indignation at the plight of his contemporaries. He joins the Chartist movement because he can find no better vehicle by which to improve the lot of the working class, experiencing a sense of devastation at its apparent failure. Utterly broken in spirit, Alton Locke sails for America to seek a new life there; however, he barely reaches the shore of the New World before he dies...... 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. Life: 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, also became a novelist. 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] In 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.[5] 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.[6] In 1872 he accepted the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute and became its 19th President.[7] 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 and Alfred Lord 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." Kingsley''s life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life. Kingsley also received letters from Thomas Huxley in 1860 and later in 1863, discussing Huxley''s early ideas on agnosticism..........

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face" by Charles Kingsley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Charles Kingsley’s classic, The Water Babies, was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children''s literature for many decades. It tells the story of a young chimney sweep, Tom, who drowns in a river and is turned into a ‘water-baby’. Tom then embarks on a series of adventures and lessons underwater, and meets characters such as the major spiritual leaders of the water world, Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby, Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, and Mother Carey. This classic fairy tale, originally published in 1915, contains eight incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines – for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term ‘Heath Robinson’ entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Pook Press publishes rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, and tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria, where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day. Intended as Christian apologia it reflects typical 19th century religious sentiments of the day. For many years the book was considered one of Kingsley''s best novels and was widely read.PlotThe plot revolves around Hypatia the pagan philosopher; Cyril the Christian patriarch; Orestes the power-hungry prefect of Egypt; and Philammon an Egyptian monk. Philammon travels from his monastic community in the desert to Alexandria, and expresses a desire to attend Hypatia''s lectures despite Cyril''s dislike of Hypatia. Although Hypatia has a deep-seated hatred of Christianity, Philammon becomes her devoted friend and disciple. Philammon also encounters Pelagia, his long-lost sister, a former singer and dancer who is now married to a Gothic warrior.

Charles Kingsley was an English writer and priest. Kingsley''s works for children, a fairy-tale The Water-Babies (1863) in particular, are considered to be the first works in the children''s fantasy genre.On the one side, the novel is a didactic fairy-tale typical of the Victorian era, and on the other side, it is part satire in support of Charles Darwin''s The Origin of Species.The main character of the book is Tom, a young chimney sweep who, after being chased out of the house and encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie, drowns in a river and transforms into a "water-baby". In the underwater world, Tom has a lot of adventures that help him come through a long way of moral development.

A passage from the book... These Lectures, as I have said, are altogether crude and fragmentary--how, indeed, could they be otherwise, dealing with so vast a subject,and so long a period of time? They are meant neither as Essays nor asOrations, but simply as a collection of hints to those who may wish towork out the subject for themselves; and, I trust, as giving someglimpses of a central idea, in the light of which the spiritual historyof Alexandria, and perhaps of other countries also, may be seen to havein itself a coherence and organic method.I was of course compelled, by the circumstances under which theseLectures were delivered, to keep clear of all points which are commonlycalled "controversial." I cannot but feel that this was a gain, ratherthan a loss; because it forced me, if I wished to give anyinterpretation at all of Alexandrian thought, any Theodicy at all of herfate, to refer to laws which I cannot but believe to be deeper, wider,more truly eternal than the points which cause most of our moderncontroversies, either theological or political; laws which will, Icannot but believe also, reassert themselves, and have to be reassertedby all wise teachers, very soon indeed, and it may be under most novelembodiments, but without any change in their eternal spirit

The Water Babies is a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children''s novel by the Reverend 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, Americans, and the poor.