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Charlotte Mary Yonge

Born

in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England

August 11, 1823

Died

May 24, 1901

Genre

Children's, Biography

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Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.

She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 160 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1853), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with the profits from later novels. Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of The Monthly Packet, a magazine (founded in 1851) with a varied readership, but targeted at British Anglican girls (in later years it was addressed to a somewhat wider readership).

Among the best known of her works are The Heir of Redclyffe, Heartsease, and The Da ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 2,702 ratings · 526 reviews · 968 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge, Barbara Dennis (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1853 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daisy Chain 3.58 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1856 — 119 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unknown to History: The Captivity of Mary of Scotland 4.13 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1882 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge, Clare A. Simmons (Editor) 3.32 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1865 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of France 3.25 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1878 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grisly Grisell 4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1893 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Countess Kate 3.59 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1862 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dove in the Eagle's Nest 3.70 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1866 — 170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Young Step-Mother 3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1862 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and Life 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1880 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Daisy Chain Series (2 books)
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Charlotte Mary Yonge

3.65 avg rating — 266 ratings

The Pillars of the House (2 books)
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Herbert Gandy (Illustrator)

4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings

Quotes by Charlotte Mary Yonge (?)

“Many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.”
― Charlotte M. Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe

tags: humor, true

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“One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.”
― Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe

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“And, for her father, it seemed as if it were a home-like, comfortable thought to him, that her mother had one of her children with her. He called her the first link of his Daisy Chain drawn up out of sight; and, during the quiet days that ensued, he seemed as it were to be lifted above grief, dwelling upon hope.”
― Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Daisy chain, or Aspirations

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