Introduction: Charlie? Kingsley (18 19 ~ 1875) was an English writer and poet in the 9th century. He spent most of his childhood in a fishing village on the west coast of England. 1843 graduated with honors from Cambridge University. After graduation, he became a priest, participated in the Christian socialist reform movement, and later served as a professor of modern history at Cambridge University. He wrote many novels, exposing the cruel exploitation of workers by small British workshops.
Charles, the author of Water Kids? Kingsley (also translated by Charlie? Kingsley) was born in Horn, a small town near Dartmouth (a desolate hilly area in southwest England). Vicarich, but he spent most of his childhood in Banach Town, Fen County and Lovely Town, Devon County, and then went to the Royal College, London University and Cambridge University to study law.
He graduated from Cambridge University and became a priest after leaving Cambridge University. 1842 is the parish priest, 1869 was appointed as the priest of Chester Cathedral, and finally 1873 was appointed as the priest of Westminster Abbey, the most famous cathedral in Britain.
He is a knowledgeable scholar and writer. Specifically, he was a prolific historian (1860 to 1869 was hired as a professor of modern history at Cambridge University), naturalist, sociologist, novelist and poet. He is sensitive, hard-working, compassionate, honest, and often criticizes the shortcomings of the times, with strong brushwork, including yeast and alton? Locke and other six or seven novels, the drama The Tragedy of the Saints, several works on history, society and environmental health, and a large number of poems.
Kingsley is very concerned about the education and life of the lower classes. His first two novels, Uneasy (1848) and Elton? Ge Ke (1850) was written to expose the poverty in real life and the evil in society, which showed some thoughts of social reformers at that time. 1852, he published another historical novel, which established his position in the field of literature.
1855, Kingsley wrote about the Glock period, or the miracle of the waves. Although this book is aimed at adults, it is also popular with Victorian children. The following year, he published The Story of the British-Victorian Age, which tells Greek mythology for children.
Later, he was invited back to Cambridge University to teach history. During this period, in order to oppose the heavy labor of hiring child laborers to clean chimneys and abandon the tradition of teaching children's literature, he published his masterpiece Children in Water. As soon as this book was published, it was warmly welcomed by readers.
Kingsley opposed the unreasonable education of children at that time, emphasized the significance of labor, and believed that human beings would degenerate without labor. His literary works, including Water Children, often reflect his thoughts on social improvement, including his tendency to be close to nature and his reflection on industrial civilization, his concern for the living conditions of workers, his criticism of children's education that harms children's physical and mental health, and his criticism of rigid and grandiose style of study.
Kingsley is rich in natural science knowledge, so he has a lot of real and vivid descriptions of marine life in many works.
What is particularly worth mentioning is his novel Westbound (1856), which is probably his most popular novel. And his natural history book "Miracle of the Coast" (1856). It is his rich marine knowledge and love for the sea that makes his description of the sea as the background of the story in The Water Child natural and cordial, leaving such a vivid, beautiful and magical impression on readers.
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