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Kenneth Ingram

1882–1965

A barrister and lay theologian who also wrote unusual, idea-rich fiction, he brought spiritual questions and a touch of the fantastic into his books. His work ranges from religious and social commentary to novels such as Midsummer Sanity, remembered for its meeting of everyday life with Faerie.

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An Outline of Sexual Morality

An Outline of Sexual Morality

by Kenneth Ingram

About the author

Born in London in 1882 and dying in 1965, Kenneth Ingram was a British barrister, lay theologian, and author. Reliable reference sources describe him as a writer whose interests crossed law, religion, public life, and imaginative literature.

Alongside works of Christian thought and social criticism, he wrote fiction with a speculative or fantastic edge. The best-known example is Midsummer Sanity (1933), a novel noted for bringing the world of Faerie into contact with modern Earth at midsummer.

The surviving record available online is stronger on his books than on his private life, so this picture is necessarily brief. Even so, his bibliography suggests a writer drawn to big questions—faith, society, morality, and the possibility that ordinary life might open onto something stranger and larger.