The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, William Powell Frith and Marianne North. A chimney-sweep drowns in a Yorkshire stream and becomes a water-baby, and is educated under the sea by Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby and her sister. Kingsley wrote it in 1863, partly as a fairy tale for his youngest son and partly as a pamphlet against child labour; the Chimney Sweepers Act followed a year later. The satire on scientific men and on schoolmasters is aimed at people he named. Forty-seven marine and river paintings by Luke Fildes and Alfred Sisley, from Venice shipping to Moret-sur-Loing, keep Kingsley's underwater journey in view.
Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, William Powell Frith and Marianne North. A chimney-sweep drowns in a Yorkshire stream and becomes a water-baby, and is educated under the sea by Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby and her sister. Kingsley wrote it in 1863, partly as a fa...
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Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was a country parson, Christian Socialist, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and tutor to the Prince of Wales. He wrote for sanitary reform and against the sweating of tailors, and made his best books out of the two things he loved most, the sea and natural history.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was a country parson, Christian Socialist, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and tutor to the Prince of Wales. He wrote for sanitary reform and against the sweating of tailors, and made his best books out of the two things he loved most, the sea and natural his...
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