Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley was an English novelist and the brother of the better known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. He spent several years in Australia in his youth, which gave him material for it. He later worked as a journalist and war correspondent. His fiction is remembered for its outdoor settings, its warmth and its brisk storytelling.