Kiki Fox, Rafael Sternbach - Charles Kingsley

Influence

Kingsley was one of the first people to embrace his contemporary, Charles Darwin, and the then controversial idea of evolution. He was given an early copy of the book to review, and found Darwin's ideas quite sensible. Darwin even praised Kingsley in later edition of his book, referring to him as a "celebrated author and a divine."

Major Works

• Water-Babies, a story of a chimney sweep longing to be clean who is kidnapped by fairies and turned into a water-baby

Sources

1. Darwin, Charles (1887), Darwin, F, ed., The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter., London: John Murray (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin) Retrieved on 2007-07-20 2.Darwin, Charles (1860), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: John Murray 2nd edition. Retrieved on 2007-07-20