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He was the father of the novelist Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931) and the uncle of the traveller and scientist Mary Kingsley (1862–1900). Charles Kingsley's childhood was spent in Clovelly , Devon, where his father was curate in 1826–1832 and rector in 1832–1836, [ 1 ] and at Barnack , Northamptonshire.
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 Martin died in the Anglo-American Hospital, Cairo, on 16 February 1969 after a heart attack. [2] He was an active and longtime humanist. [40] After his death, the editor of Humanist News wrote: Kingsley Martin was through and through a Humanist and a life-long champion of Humanist causes.
Amis was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. [8] His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.
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.
Martin Armstrong (1882–1974) Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), Sea Change; Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941), Elizabeth and Her German Garden; Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935) Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's novels; William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859) Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930) Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917)
Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish Colonel Sun in March 1968. The book was the first continuation James Bond novel following the death of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming .
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism .