Feb 2007. ("Westward Ho! is an invigorating starting point, because it's the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark.") Kingsley was a fervent Anglo-Saxonist, [15] and was seen as a major proponent of the ideology, particularly in the 1840s. [16] He proposed that the English people were "essentially a Teutonic race, blood-kin to the Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians". [17] Kingsley suggested there was a "strong Norse element in Teutonism and Anglo-Saxonism". Worstward Ho is not a play, it is prose. Some even call it poetry (in that modernist style which includes the concept of prose poetry). Given our contemporary love of spoken word it seems a natural fit to perform this text live, particularly when placed in the incredibly capable hands of a master such as Meldrum. The size of the task to make sensical this dense and yet linguistically sparse piece of writing cannot be overstated, and in the hands of lesser mortals all hope for the audience hearing and engaging with each nuance would be lost. A prominent theme of the novel is the 16th-century fear of Catholic domination, [5] and this reflects Kingsley's own dislike of Catholicism. [4] The novel repeatedly shows the Protestant English correcting the worst excesses of the Spanish Jesuits and the Inquisition. [4] Rudyard Kipling spent several of his childhood years at Westward Ho!, where he attended the United Services College (later absorbed by Haileybury College, which is now in Hertfordshire). His collection of stories, Stalky & Co, published in 1899, was based on his experiences at the College. To commemorate his living there, the first stanza of his poem " If—" is set into the pavement on the promenade in granite setts. [9] The view inland Twin towns [ edit ]

Or, again,” chimed in old Mr. Cary, “as they say in the North— “'Find a miller that will not steal, Davis, Wes (11 March 2007). "When English Eyes Are Smiling". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 September 2016. Hodges, C. Walter (1979). The Battlement Garden: Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare (1st Americaned.). New York: Houghton. p. 116. ISBN 9780816430048. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource referenceWestward Ho! is a great destination for those wanting to bring their dogs on holiday with them as it is not only home to several dog friendly accommodation providers, but your furry friends are allowed on the beach all year around, with just a few restrictions in the summer months. There are signs along the whole beach front and on the approach to the seafront detailing which parts of the beach are open to dogs and of course, if you are staying in the village, then your accommodation provider will happily give you all the advice you need when travelling around with your dogs. a b Donoghue, Denis (17 October 2013). "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, by Charles Kingsley. The classic children's story is 150 years old". The Irish Times . Retrieved 25 September 2016. He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to welcome Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species. He had been sent an advance review copy and in his response of 18 November 1859 (four days before the book went on sale) stated that he had "long since, from watching the crossing of domesticated animals and plants, learnt to disbelieve the dogma of the permanence of species." [10] Darwin added an edited version of Kingsley's closing remarks to the next edition of his book, stating, "A celebrated author and divine has written to me that 'he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.'" [11] When a heated dispute lasting three years developed over human evolution, Kingsley gently satirised the debate, known as the Great Hippocampus Question, as the "Great Hippopotamus Question".

Charles Kingsley's American Notes: Letters from a Lecture Tour, 1874, edited by Robert Bernard Martin in 1958, and published by Princeton University Press) Set initially in Bideford in North Devon during the reign of Elizabeth I, Westward Ho! follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh, an unruly child who as a young man follows Francis Drake to sea. Amyas loves local beauty Rose Salterne, as does nearly everyone else; much of the novel involves Rose's elopement with a Spaniard.Owen-Jones, Peter (11 February 2007). "A wild West country walk". The Sunday Times. London . Retrieved 5 October 2017. Westward Ho! is an invigorating starting point, because it's the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark. The novel's virulent anti-Catholicism, as well as its racially insensitive depictions of the South Americans, has made the novel less appealing to a modern audience, although it is still regarded by some as Kingsley's "liveliest, and most interesting novel." [6] Adaptations [ edit ] 1920 edition illustrated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth.