London - Body, mind and the City
Author: Charles Kingsley
Title: 'Nausicaa in London', in Sanitary and Social Essays (1880)
Keywords: London, Sanitary
Introduction
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English academic, historian, novelist and clergyman, penning novels such as Westward Ho! (1855) and The Water-Babies (1863). A Christian Socialist, he was also one of the first intellectuals to support Darwin’s theories of evolution. His posthumously published collection of essays and lectures, Sanitary and Social Essays (1880), features Nausicaa in London, extracted here, in which he argues that English women should strive to achieve the perfection of physical form captured in the statues of classical antiquity.
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