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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism , the working men's college , and forming labour cooperatives , which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
The Story of Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head is a short novel published in 1898 [1] for the series Books for the Bairns. The story was edited by W.T. Stead and taken from Charles Kingsley, who originally wrote the story with the name Perseus, the Gorgon Slayer and published it in his book The Heroes, or Greek fairy tales in 1855. [1] [2]
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.
Illustration by Howard Davie for The Heroes by Charles Kingsley.. The Symplegades (/ s ɪ m ˈ p l ɛ ɡ ə d iː z /; Greek: Συμπληγάδες, Symplēgádes), also known as Clashing Rocks or Cyanean Rocks (Κυανέαι), were, according to Greek mythology, a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together whenever a vessel went through.
In the middle of the 19th century, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Bulfinch played an important role in introducing Greek mythology to children outside of the school context. [3] Their success reflected an increasing demand for fairy tales and mythical stories, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] but these themes became broadly successful only at the ...
The Heroes (1856), a collection of stories based on Greek mythology by Charles Kingsley "The Heroes" (1947), a Nelson Algren story in The Neon Wilderness; The Heroes (1960), a non-fiction book by Ronald McKie; The Heroes (fantasy novel), a 2011 fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [2] Written in 1862–1863 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 On the Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and ...
Hylas is referred to in Chapter 18 of Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia, when the Prefect Orontes, rescued by the Goths, is taken for safety into a house largely populated by women, and fancies himself as "A second Hylas". "Hylas" is a poem by Madison Cawein, including the lines "Hylas, the Argonaut, the lad Beloved of Herakles, was I" [12]