This 1873 collection displays Kingsley’s wide-ranging interests. In the title essay, he suggests that Victorian attitudes toward art resemble those of the Puritans. The book also includes “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, ” and a review of James Anthony Froude’s history of England.
About the author
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist—most closely associated with the West Country and Hampshire. Among his novels, the best known are Hypatia, Westward Ho!, and Hereward the Wake. He is also the author of the children’s classic The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, a story about a boy chimney sweep.
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