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HENRY KINGSLEY (183o-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:KINGSLEY (183o-1876)  , See also:English novelist, younger See also:brother of See also:Charles See also: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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