Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley (1830-1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better known Charles Kingsley.

He was educated at King's College, London, and Oxford, which he left without graduating. He travelled to Australia where he became involved in gold-digging, and later joined the mounted police. On his return to the UK in 1858 he devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), The Hillyars and the Burtons (1865), Ravenshoe (1861), and Austin Elliot (1863). Ravenshoe is generally regarded as the best. In 1869 he went to Edinburgh to edit the Daily Review , but he soon gave this up, and became war correspondent for his paper during the Franco-German War.

External link

• eTexts of Kingsley's works, at Project Gutenberg