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KINGSLEY, HENRY (183o-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINGSLEY, See also:HENRY (183o-1876) , See also:English novelist, younger See also:brother of See also:Charles Kingsley, was See also:born at Barnack, See also:Northampton-See also:shire, on the 2nd of See also:January 1830. In 1853 he See also:left See also:Oxford, where he was an undergraduate at See also:Worcester See also:College, for the Australian goldfields. This venture, however, was not a success, and after five years he returned to See also:England. He achieved considerable popularity with his Recollections of See also:Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), a novel of Australian See also:life. This was the first of a See also:series of novels of which Ravenshoe (1861) and The Hillyars and The Burtons (1865) are the best known. These stories are characterized by much vigour, abundance of incident, and healthy sentiment. He edited for eighteen months the See also:Edinburgh Daily See also:Review, for which he had acted as See also:war correspondent during the Franco-See also:German War. He died at Cuckfield, See also:Sussex, on the 24th of May 1876.

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