Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was a 19th century British novelist. Kingsley became a minister before becoming a Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. Kingsley often used his writing to champion social issues. Essays in this collection include Woman’s Work in a Country Parish, The Science of Health, The Two Breaths, Thrift, Nausicaa in London; or, the Lower Education of Women, The Air-Mothers, The Tree of Knowledge, Great Cities and their Influence for Good and Evil, Heroism, The Massacre of the Innocents, and “A mad world, my masters.”
First published June 18, 1880
