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Fanny Kingsley

Wright, C. J.  “'My Darling Baby': Charles Kingsley's Letters to His Wife,” The British Library Journal Vol. 10 (Autumn 1984): 147-157.  Wright provides an overview of the British Library collection of the letters of Kingsley to his wife Fanny. Kingsley, Fanny ; Letters . Gay, Peter. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Vol. II.  The Tender Passion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986). Gay discusses Kingsley’s strong preoccupation with sex as practiced in his own personal life, the erotic origins of his love of nature, and his conviction of the theological importance of the sexual function in marriage. Gay also considers Fanny Kingsley’s own keen sexual appetites. Sexuality ; Kingsley, Fanny .