Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography — John Locke — John Shaqi
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
John Locke · en
Produced by Online Distributed Proofreading Team
ALTON LOCKE,
TAILOR AND POET
An Autobiography.
BY THE REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY,
CANON OF WESTMINSTER, RECTOR OF EVERSLEY,
AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE OF WALES,
_NEW EDITION_,
WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR BY THOMAS HUGHES, ESQ., Q.C.,
AUTHOR OF "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS."
CONTENTS.
PREFATORY MEMOIR
CHEAP CLOTHES AND NASTY
PREFACE--TO THE UNDERGRADUATES OF CAMBRIDGE
PREFACE--TO THE WORKING MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER I. A POET'S CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II. THE TAILORS' WORKROOM
CHAPTER III. SANDY MACKAYE
CHAPTER IV. TAILORS AND SOLDIERS
CHAPTER V. THE SCEPTIC'S MOTHER
CHAPTER VI. THE DULWICH GALLERY
CHAPTER VII. FIRST LOVE
CHAPTER VIII. LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE
CHAPTER IX. POETRY AND POETS
CHAPTER X. HOW FOLKS TURN CHARTISTS
CHAPTER XI. "THE YARD WHERE THE GENTLEMEN LIVE"
CHAPTER XII. CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER XIII. THE LOST IDOL FOUND
CHAPTER XIV. A CATHEDRAL TOWN
CHAPTER XV. THE MAN OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER XVI. CULTIVATED WOMEN
CHAPTER XVII. SERMONS IN STONES
CHAPTER XVIII. MY FALL
CHAPTER XIX. SHORT AND SAD
CHAPTER XX. PEGASUS IN HARNESS
CHAPTER XXI. THE SWEATER'S DEN
CHAPTER XXII. AN EMERSONIAN SERMON
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TOWNSMAN'S SERMON TO THE GOWNSMAN
CHAPTER XXV. A TRUE NOBLEMAN
CHAPTER XXVI. THE TRIUMPHANT AUTHOR
CHAPTER XXVII. THE PLUSH BREECHES TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MEN WHO ARE EATEN
CHAPTER XXIX. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XXX. PRISON THOUGHTS
CHAPTER XXXI. THE NEW CHURCH
CHAPTER XXXII. THE TOWER OF BABEL
CHAPTER XXXIII. A PATRIOT'S REWARD
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TENTH OF APRIL
CHAPTER XXXV. THE LOWEST DEEP
CHAPTER XXXVI. DREAMLAND
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TRUE DEMAGOGUE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. MIRACLES AND SCIENCE
CHAPTER XXXIX. NEMESIS
CHAPTER XL. PRIESTS AND PEOPLE
CHAPTER XLI. FREEDOM, EQUALITY, AND BROTHERHOOD
PREFATORY MEMOIR.
The tract appended to this preface has been chosen to accompany this
reprint of _Alton Locke_ in order to illustrate, from another side, a
distinct period in the life of Charles Kingsley, which stands out very much
by itself. It may be taken roughly to have extended from 1848 to 1856. It
has been thought that they require a preface, and I have undertaken to
write it, as one of the few survivors of those who were most intimately
associated with the author at the time to which the works refer.