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- 1850-1877 (Creation)
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Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (nee Grenfell, 1814-1891) was the daughter of Pascoe Grenfell, who had amassed a substantial fortune through Welsh and Cornish mining interests. She was married to the English clergymen, writer and social reformer Charles Kingsley, the author of Water Babies and Westward Ho. Fanny Kingsley was her late husband’s biographer and editor of his letters. The Kingsleys had four children, Rose Georgina Kingsley (1845-1925), Maurice Kingsley (1847-1910), Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison (1855-1931) and Grenville Arthur Kingsley (1858-1898).
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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. His best-known novels are The Water Babies and Westward Ho.
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Grenville Arthur Kingsley (12 Apr 1858-18 May 1898) was the youngest son of English clergymen, writer and social reformer Charles Kingsley and his wife Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (nee Grenfell). Charles Kingsley is best known as the author of The Water Babies and Westward Ho. Grenville Kingsley came to Australia because of poor health in or before 1886 (an article by him signed G. A. K. about a trip up Mount Barney appeared in 'The Queenslander' of 6 November 1886). Kingsley lived at Tamrookum, 15 km south of Beaudesert, the property of Robert Martin Collins. Robert Collins had visited Fanny Kingsley and her family in England because of his deep appreciation of the late Charles Kingsley's books. Kingsley died aged 40 and is buried at Tamrookum.
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Donated by Mr and Mrs Persse through John Stanton Davies Mellick in 1973.
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Inscibed by Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (nee Grenfell, 1814 – 1891), the editor, to her (and the author's) youngest son. "Grenville Arthur Kingsley. In Memory of the best of Father’s, from his loving Mother. Byfleet, December 1876." Further inscribed to Fanny Collins from Rose Kingsley in remembrance of her darling brother Grenville Arthur Kingsley". This was probably Fannie Martin Collins (9 Jun 1887 – 24 Feb 1944), a daughter of Robert Collins, Grenville Kingsley’s friend. Fannie later married De Burgh Bannatyne Bentinck Persse (1881 –1947). Fannie was 10 years old at the time of Grenville Kingsley’s death.
Kingsley family armorial bookplates on inside upper boards.
Extra-illustrated with 22 photographs, 10 printed illustrations, 2 dried flowers and 1 drawing.
Volume 1:
- House with a young man reading on front lawn (verso of half title)
- Portrait of Charles Kingsley (verso of title page)
- Oval portrait with initials F.E.K., i.e. Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (dedication page)
- River (p. 1)
- Printed illustration of St Luke’s Chelsea (p. 15)
- Big house (p. 41)
- Dining room (p. 63)
- Dried flower (p. 64)
- ‘Bramshill House’ (full-page, verso of plate between pp. 74 / 75)
- Printed Illustration (p.115
- Printed Illustration (p. 116)
- House (p. 193)
- Portrait of Charles Kingsley (p. 232)
- Photograph of an portrait of Fanny Kingsley painted in 1850 (p. 232)
- ‘Cottages built in Eversley by John Martineau 1887 In Memory of his beloved “Master”’ (on single sheet of paper between pp. 308/309)
- Church interior (p.358 – loose)
- Church (verso of plate between pp. 358 / 359)
- Full-length portrait of Charles Kingsley (p. 401)
- Printed Illustration of ‘Ogwen Lake’ (p. 461)
- Original drawing of two fish going for bait with three lines of text (p. 462)
Volume 2:
- Printed Illustration (p. 45)
- Printed Illustration (p. 123)
- Newspaper cutting (p. 153)
- Printed steel-engraved portrait (verso of plate between pp. 284 / 285)
- Printed Illustration (p. 290)
- Dried flower (p. 294)
- Churchyard with people looking at head-stones (p. 343)
- Stone wall and tower (p. 343)
- ‘The Porch. Eversley Church and path from Rectory’ (p. 376)
- Chester Cathedral (p. 377)
- Chester Cathedral – side view (p. 377)
- Printed steel-engraved portrait (verso of plate between p. 402)
- Portrait of young lady (p. 403)
- Printed Illustration (p. 479)
- Charles Kingsley’s grave (p. 480)
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- English
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Created, JH, 22-May-2019