The Hermits
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Saint Antony
The Life of Saint Paul, the First Hermit
Hilarion
Arsenius
The Hermits of Asia
Basil
Simeon Stylites
The Hermits of Europe
St. Severinus, the Apostle of Noricum
The Celtic Hermits
St. Malo
St. Columba
St. Guthlac
St. Godric of Finchale
Anchorites, Strictly So Called
About the author:
Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms.
Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho and Appledore Railway. A hotel in Westward Ho was named after and opened by him. A hotel which was opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, and named after Kingsley was founded by teetotallers, who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists as The Kingsley by Thistle.
Kingsley School, a private school in Bideford, the town in which Westward Ho is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College.
In 1905, the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had been educated at Bristol Grammar School. (wikipedia.org)
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