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Works by Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875

     BOOKS (in chronological order):

  • The Saint's Tragedy: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia, Saint of the Romish Calendar (London: Parker, 1848; New York: International Book, 1855).
  • Twenty-five Village Sermons (London: Parker, 1849; Philadelphia: Hooker, 1854).
  • Introductory Lectures, Delivered at Queen's College, London (London: Parker, 1849).
  • Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850; New York: Harper, 1850).
  • Cheap Clothes and Nasty, as Parson Lot (London: Macmillan, 1850).
  • Yeast; a Problem (London: Parker, 1851; New York: Harper, 1851).
  • The Application of Associative Principles and Methods to Agriculture. A Lecture, Delivered on Behalf of the Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations, on Wednesday, May 28, 1851 (London: Bezer, 1851).
  • The Message of the Church to Labouring Men. A Sermon Preached at St. John's Church, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, On the Evening of Sunday, June the 22nd, 1851 (London: Parker, 1851).
  • Phaethon; or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1852; Philadelphia: Hooker, 1854).
  • Sermons on National Subjects Preached in a Village Church (London: Griffin, 1852).
  • Who Are the Friends of Order? A Reply to Certain Observations in a Late Number of Fraser's Magazine on the So-Called "Christian Socialists" (London: Lumley, 1852).
  • Hypatia: or, New Foes with an Old Face (London: Parker, 1853; New York: Lowell, 1853).
  • Alexandria and Her Schools. Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1854).
  • Sermons on National Subjects. Second Series (London & Glasgow: Griffin, 1854).
  • Who Causes Pestilence? Four Sermons, with Preface (London & Glasgow: Griffin, 1854).
  • 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 (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1855).
  • Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1855).
  • Sermons for the Times (London: Parker, 1855; New York: Dana, 1856).
  • The Heroes; or Greek Fairy Tales, for My Children, illustrated by Kingsley (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1855; Boston: Warner, 1855).
  • Poems (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856).
  • Two Years Ago (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1857; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1857).
  • Andromeda, and Other Poems (London: Parker, 1858; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858).
  • Miscellanies (London: Parker, 1859).
  • The Good News of God; Sermons (London: Parker, 1859; New York: Burt, Hutchinson & Abbey, 1859).
  • The Massacre of the Innocents (London: Jarrold, 1859).
  • The Limits of Exact Science as Applied to History. An Inaugural Lecture, Delivered before the University of Cambridge (Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1860).
  • Why Should We Pray for Fair Weather? A Sermon (London: Parker, 1860).
  • New Miscellanies (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860).
  • Town and Country Sermons (London: Parker, 1861).
  • Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Tenth of June, M.DCCC.LXII. Composed for the Installation of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University. Set to Music by W. Sterndale Bennett (Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1862).
  • Speech of Lord Dundreary in Section D on Friday Last. On the Great Hippocampus Question, anonymous (Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1862).
  • A Sermon on the Death of His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, Preached at Eversley Church, December 22nd, 1861 (London: Parker, 1862).
  • The Water-Babies; A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863; Boston: Burnham, 1864).
  • The Gospel of the Pentateuch. A Set of Parish Sermons (London: Parker, 1863).
  • The Roman and the Teuton. A Series of Lectures Delivered before the University of Cambridge (Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1864; New York: Macmillan, 1890).
  • "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?" A Reply to a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Newman (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1864).
  • Hints to Stammerers, by a Minute Philosopher (London: Longman, 1864).
  • David. Four Sermons Preached before the University of Cambridge (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1865).
  • Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English" (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1866; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866).
  • The Temple of Wisdom. A Sermon (London: Macmillan, 1866).
  • Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, on the Ancien Regime as It Existed on the Continent before the French Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1867).
  • The Water of Life and Other Sermons (London: Macmillan, 1867; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868).
  • The Hermits (London: Macmillan, 1868; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868).
  • Discipline, and Other Sermons (London: Macmillan, 1868; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868).
  • God's Feast. A Sermon (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1868).
  • The Two Breaths (London: Jarrold, 1868).
  • Women and Politics (London: London National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1869).
  • The Address on Education, Read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Bristol, on the 1st of October, 1869 (London: National Education League, 1869).
  • Madam How and Lady Why; or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (London: Bell & Daldy, 1870; New York: Macmillan, 1885).
  • At Last; A Christmas in the West Indies (London & New York: Macmillan, 1871).
  • Letter to a Public School Boy on Betting and Gambling (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1871?).
  • Town Geology (London: Strahan, 1872; New York: Appleton, 1873).
  • Poems; Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, & c., Collected Edition (London: Macmillan, 1872; New York: Hurst, 1880?).
  • Plays and Puritans, and Other Historical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1873).
  • Prose Idylls, New and Old (London: Macmillan, 1873).
  • Frederick Denison Maurice, A Sermon Preached in Aid of the Girls' Home, 22 Charlotte Street, Portland Place (London: Macmillan, 1873).
  • Selections from Some of the Writings of C. Kingsley (London: Strahan, 1873).
  • Health and Education (London: Isbister, 1874; New York: Appleton, 1874).
  • Westminster Sermons (London: Macmillan, 1874).
  • Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 (London: Longmans, Green, 1875; Philadelphia: Coates, 1875).
  • Letters to Young Men on Betting and Gambling (London: King, 1877).
  • All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, edited by Rev. W. Harrison (London: Kegan Paul, 1878; New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1878).
  • True Words for Brave Men: a Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries (London: Kegan Paul, 1878; New York: Whittaker, 1886).
  • Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful, from the Writings of Charles Kingsley, edited by Fanny E. Kingsley (London & New York: Macmillan, 1880).
  • Daily Thoughts, Selected from the Writings of Charles Kingsley by His Wife (London: Macmillan, 1884).
  • From Death to Life. Fragments of Teaching to a Village Congregation. With Letters on the Life after Death, Edited by His Wife (London: Macmillan, 1887).
  • Words of Advice to School-Boys, Collected from Hitherto Unpublished Notes and Letters of the Late Charles Kingsley, edited by E. F. Johns (London: Simpkin/ Winchester: Warren, 1912).
  • The Tutor's Story; an Unpublished Novel, by the Late Charles Kingsley, revised and completed by Lucas Malet (Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison) (London: Smith, Elder, 1916; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916).

 

LETTERS (in chronological order):

  • Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, 2 volumes, edited by Fanny Kingsley (London: King, 1877).
  • Charles Kingsley's American Notes: Lectures from a Lecture Tour, 1874, edited by Robert Bernard Martin (Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1958).

    Charles Kingsley and Wellington College: The Text of Fourteen Letters from Charles Kingsley and One from Maurice Kingsley to Edward White Benson, 1860-1872, compiled by Mark Baker (Eversley: Wellington College, 1975).














OTHER (in chronological order):

  • Charles B. Mansfield, Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate, with a biographical sketch by Kingsley (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1856).
  • The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg; with Twenty-Five of His Sermons, with a preface by Kingsley (London: Smith, Elder, 1857).
  • Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality: or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland, with a biographical preface by Kingsley (London: Smith, Elder, 1859).
  • John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, with a preface by Kingsley (London: Longman, 1860).
  • Rose Georgina Kingsley, South by West; or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico, with a preface by Kingsley (London: Isbister, 1874).

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