Kingsley's first novel.- Kingsley (Charles, novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist, 1819-75) Autograph Letter signed to his publisher John Parker concerning his novel "Hypatia", 1p., 8vo, Eversley, [Hampshire], n.d., [1853], "I send you the copy of the next no. of Hypatia. If you think it too short, you can have more... . I have a proof of the first part of the Cap excluded last time; but send you the 2nd.", folds, tipped-in on card.*** Kingsley's "first historical novel, Hypatia (1853), subtitled New Foes with an Old Face. The new foes were J. H. Newman, now a Roman Catholic, and the other leaders of the Oxford Movement, such as E. B. Pusey; the old face imputed to them was that of the fanatical (and of course celibate) monks of fifth-century Alexandria who murdered the Neoplatonist philosopher Hypatia, and who Kingsley viewed as extreme and discreditable examples of the asceticism of the early church from which contemporary Catholic spirituality had drawn inspiration." - Oxford DNB.