Kingston, W H G
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1814-1880) UK author, almost solely for boys from 1850, more than 100 of his novels being juveniles, many of which expose his evangelical convictions; of these two are sf interest: Mark Seaworth: A Tale of the Indian Ocean (1852), a Lost Race tale; and At the South Pole: Or, the Adventures of Richard Pengelley, Mariner (1870), where the climate is unexpected. From 1853 until his death he was married to Agnes Kinloch Kingston, whose translations of Jules Verne and Johann Wyss were published under his own name without acknowledgement. [JC]
William Henry Giles Kingston
born Westminster, Middlesex [now London]: 28 February 1814
died London: 5 August 1880
works
- Mark Seaworth: A Tale of the Indian Ocean (London: Griffith Faran Browne, 1852) [hb/]
- At the South Pole: Or, the Adventures of Richard Pengelley, Mariner (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870) [hb/]
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