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Charles Kingsley



Kingsley, Charles (1819–75), English writer and clergyman and an advocate of social reform. His early novel Alton Locke (1850) is a sympathetic study of working-class life. He also wrote historical novels, notably Westward Ho! (1855) and the children's fantasy The Water Babies (1863).



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