As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

* Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby depicts a Great Auk telling the tale of its species ' extinction.

The terms sweater for the middleman and sweating system for the process of subcontracting piecework were used in early critiques like Charles Kingsley's Cheap Clothes and Nasty, written in 1850, which described conditions in London, England.

The character of Tom the chimney sweep in Charles Kingsley's classic childhood story The Water Babies was based on the life and times of a Wokingham boy called James Seaward, who was a boy sweep in Victorian times.

In his later years Seaward swept the chimneys at Charles Kingsley's home at the Rectory in Eversley, Hampshire.

Maurice also contributed many prefaces and introductions to the works of friends, as to Archdeacon Hare's Charges, Charles Kingsley's Saint's Tragedy, etc.

This linking of " Anglo-Saxon " English nationalism and anti-Catholicism influenced Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake ( 1864 ), which, like Ivanhoe, helped popularise the image of a romantic Anglo-Saxon England destroyed by the Normans.

The village name comes from the title of Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho!

For instance, Gray describes much of Lanark as an extended ' Difplag ' ( diffuse plagiarism ) of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies.

His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death in 1884, consisted mainly of ballads ( such as his musical adaptation of Charles Kingsley's poem, " Three Fishers "); but his importance in the history of music is owing to his exertion in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition to the Tonic sol-fa system, which had a success he could not foresee.

* Derek B Scott sings Hullah's setting ( 1857 ) of Charles Kingsley's " Three Fishers Went Sailing "

Hawkins wrote the memories of his trip under the title Voiage into the South Sea ( 1622 ), which became the most famous Elizabethan adventure, re-published by the Hakluyt Society and reworked in Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho!

Charles Kingsley's 1866 rewriting of the story.

Besides his work for Punch, he occasionally produced work for other magazines, and also produced illustrations for an 1885 edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies.

Medieval Cornwall is also the setting of the trilogy by Monica Furlong *, Wise Child, Juniper, and Colman, as well as part of Charles Kingsley's * Hereward the Wake.

The site was the inspiration for Charles Kingsley's 1863 novel, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.

Stevenson found the name " Dead Man's Chest " among a list of island names in a book by Charles Kingsley and said " Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies ( 1871 ); where I got the ' Dead Man's Chest ' - that was the seed ".

An appreciation of his character and his poetry was included in Charles Kingsley's article on Burns and his School in the North British Review for November 1851.

Charles Kingsley's pamphlet, " Cheap Clothes and Nasty ," and novel, Alton Locke, did much to draw public attention to the practice.

Rutland Barrington presented several stage works at the Garrick, including his popular " fairy play " called Water Babies in 1902, based on Charles Kingsley's book, with music by Alfred Cellier, among others.

In Eversley there is a primary school called Charles Kingsley's Primary School, founded by Charles Kingsley in 1853.

Charles Kingsley's is one of only 67 schools to be named on that list twice.

The Gubbins band is depicted in Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho !.

Charles reads the audiobook editions of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, and his book The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything, and he regularly attends sci-fi, comedy and memorabilia conventions in connection with the Red Dwarf franchise.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

* Monks ( Oliver Twist ), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Memex is featured in Charles Stross ' cross-genre novel The Atrocity Archives, and its sequels.

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

* Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain ( 1997 ) borrows much from the Odyssey to tell the story of an American Civil War veteran's homecoming.

* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

The term retcon is used several times in the 2010 novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by American writer Charles Yu.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert " Buck " Coulson, Now You See It / Him / Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons ; the latter includes an in-character " introduction " by Wilson Tucker ( himself a character in the novel ) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.

* Spin ( novel ), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.

** David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* January 3 – Charles Dickens commences writing the novel Hard Times.

* Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )