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Cripps, Elizabeth A.  “Lewis Carroll, and Charles and Henry Kingsley,” Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer 1980): 59-66.
Cripps considers data relating to three topics in this article: Carroll's knowledge of and interest in Kingsley and his works; Carroll's friendship with Henry Kingsley; and the parallels between The Water-Babies and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With respect to the parallels, Cripps cautions about talking of influences, declaring that it is quite likely that two authors, themselves the product of similar backgrounds, should sometimes use the same ideas when composing a children's story.

Carroll, Lewis; The Water-Babies; Kingsley, Henry.
 

Lord, Walter Frewen.  “The Kingsleys,” in his The Mirror of the Century (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906): 188-203.
Lord discusses the life and work of the two brothers Henry and Charles Kingsley, focusing on their novels.  “As regards the work of Charles Kingsley, we shall have to say that over-emphasis destroyed the artistic effect that he would fain have produced.  A not dissimilar lack of finish is perceptible in the work of Henry Kingsley, owing to his eagerness to produce.  A little more mental concentration in the case of both; a little more deliberation in the case of Charles, and a little more earnestness in the case of Henry, and the world of letters would have been enriched by two great artists.  As it is – proxime accesserunt” (202).

Overview; Novels; Kingsley, Henry.
 

Ryan, J. S. “In an English Country Churchyard,” Journal and Proceedings (Armidale and District Historical Society) Vol. 19 (1976): 63-72.
Ryan briefly discusses Charles and Henry Kingsley’s lives in the village of Eversley paying particular attention to a number of connections between Australia and the village.

Eversley; Australia; Kingsley, Henry.

 
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