Alton Locke

Name: Alton Locke
Author: Charles Kingsley

by Charles Kingsley

Novel of a tailor-poet seeking social reform and redemption

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Charles Kingsley

Kingsley was a Christian Socialist whose social novels condemned the exploitation of the working poor with passionate moral urgency. Alton Locke and Yeast are important Victorian reform novels, while The Water-Babies is his most enduring fictional work.

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