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Oct 9, 2013 · Charles Kingsley was an eccentric who once made friends with a wasp which he saved from drowning. He gave a Devon village its name. He gave us a number of words and phrases still in common use. His most famous work, The Water-Babies, is an odd book which is at once a children's classic, a moral…
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [2] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Species.
Sung by The Unthanks and written by Frank Higgins in 1969, this song is based on the true and terrible testimony of seventeen year old Patience Kershaw. The Report of the Children’s Employment Commission (1842) which had inspired Kingsley to write The Water-Babies examined the working condition of children in all areas of industry.
The Water-Babies is essentially a charming fantasy with a serious, consistently developed moral purpose. The first part of the tale is a sentimental, Dickensian account of a poor orphan facing ...
Tom becomes a water-baby, 3.87902 inches long, and begins his life in that element, cared for by the fairies, until gradually his life is transformed, his cruelties forgiven as he moves from...
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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin 's The Origin of Species.
