Charles Kingsley
(1819-1875), Novelist, Church of England clergyman and controversialistSitter in 47 portraits
Novelist and divine; ordained, 1842, and soon became associated with Christian Socialist movement; published tracts and novels, including Yeast, 1848, and Alton Lock, 1850, promoting Christian Socialism; appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860, and published The Water Babies, 1863. Often the centre of controversy, Kingsley nevertheless gained both public and royal approval in his later years.
published by Hughes & Edmonds
albumen print, published 1876
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Various writers, historians and philanthropists
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
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after Lowes Cato Dickinson
etching, 1860s?
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by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
line engraving, published 1861
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by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
line engraving, published 1861
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Charles Kingsley ('Men of the Day, No. 42.')
by Adriano Cecioni
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 March 1872
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by Charles Henry Jeens, published by Macmillan & Co
stipple and line engraving, published 1876
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