Loading Search

• Buy this Book
• Book Creators
• Related Blog Posts
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook

The history of this book is sufficiently peculiar to merit a few words of introduction. The literary notebooks and manuscripts published and unpublished of my father, Charles Kingsley, were left to me by my mother. Nominally they came into my possession at the date of her death, in 1892. But circumstances, into which it is unnecessary for me to enter here, prevented my making a thorough examinatio... More

The history of this book is sufficiently peculiar to merit a few words of introduction. The literary notebooks and manuscripts published and unpublished of my father, Charles Kingsley, were left to me by my mother. Nominally they came into my possession at the date of her death, in 1892. But circumstances, into which it is unnecessary for me to enter here, prevented my making a thorough examination of them until last winter. I knew my father had planned, and begun writing, two novels one called The Pilgrimage of Grace, dealing with the suppression of the monasteries under Henry VIII; the other called DarH ng, the History of a Wise Woman, the scene of which was laid in theN ew Forest and the plot of which concerned the doings of certain French refugees in the years immediately following The Terror. Portions of both these I found amongst a mass of lectures, essays, poems, sketches of character, etc. But I also found about a hundred and fifty foolscap pages of another novel, entitled The Tutor sS tory, which was entirely new to me.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

You must be a member of JacketFlap to add a video to this page. Please Log In or Register.