English novelist Henry Kingsley died #OTD in 1876.
He achieved considerable popularity with his Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), a novel of Australian life. This was the first of a series of novels of which Ravenshoe (1861) & The Hillyars and The Burtons (1865) are the best known. He edited for eighteen months the Edinburgh Daily Review, for which he had acted as war correspondent during the Franco-German War.
Books by Henry Kingsley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1304