Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Charles Kingsley: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Water-Babies

Appendix A: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence and Songs of
Experience (1789, 1794)

Appendix B: Matthew Arnold, “The Forsaken Merman” from The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)

Appendix C: From Heinrich Hoffman, Struwwelpeter (1845)

Appendix D: From Lewis Carroll, “The Mock-Turtle’s Story” in Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1865)

Appendix E: From Margaret Gatty, “Whereunto?” Parables From Nature (1861)

Appendix F: From Maria Susanna Cummins, The Lamplighter (1854)

Appendix G: From Samuel G. Goodrich, Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children (1831)

Appendix H: Reflections of Charles Kingsley on Nature and Sanitation

1. From Charles Kingsley, Glaucus; or,The Wonders of the Shore (1855)
2. From Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (1870)
3. From Charles Kingsley, “Air-Mothers,” in Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (1880)
4. From Letter XII

Appendix I: Joseph Noel Paton’s Illustrations for the First Edition of The Water-Babies (1863)

Appendix J: Reviews of The Water-Babies

1. The Anthropological Review (November 1863)
2. New York Times (25 December 1863)
3. The Times (26 January 1864)
4. The Times (12 December 1885)

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