Henry Kingsley

For the American lawyer and railroad executive, see Henry Coit Kingsley.

Henry Kingsley
Kingsley, c. 1870
Kingsley, c. 1870
Born(1830-01-02)2 January 1830
Northamptonshire, England
Died24 May 1876(1876-05-24) (aged 46)
Sussex, England
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Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876)[1] was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.[2]

  1. ^ Phillips, A.A. (1974). "Kingsley, Henry (1830–1876)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5. Melbourne University Press. pp. 32–33. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  2. ^ Brown, David W. (1987). "Muscular Christianity in the Antipodes: Some Observations on the Diffusion and Emergence of a Victorian Ideal in Australian Social Theory" (PDF). Sporting Traditions. 3 (2): 173–187. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2016 – via la84foundation.org.