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Author and Anglican clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819–75) took an active interest in the plight of the working class and was a co-founder of England's Christian Socialist movement. In addition to writing novels, poetry, sermons, political essays, and children's stories, Kingsley taught history at Cambridge University, served as chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to the Prince of Wales, and was appointed canon of Westminster Abbey.A prominent American artist during the Golden Age of Illustration, Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935) contributed to many popular magazines of the era, including Century, Collier's, and Harper's. In the course of her longtime association with Good Housekeeping, she created all of the periodical's covers from 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated more than 60 books, among them Little Women and A Child's Garden of Verses.
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''Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book . . . [A] delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature.'' --Naomi Wood, Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University
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- PublisherWentworth Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1372360808
- ISBN 13 9781372360800
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages292
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