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Chantry House
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288 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1886
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
707 books73 followersCharlotte 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 Daisy Chain. A Book of Golden Deeds is a collection of true stories of courage and self-sacrifice. She also wrote Cameos from English History, Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands and Hannah More. Her History of Christian Names was described as "the first serious attempt at tackling the subject" and as the standard work on names in the preface to the first edition of Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 1944.
Her personal example and influence on her god-daughter, Alice Mary Coleridge, played a formative role in Coleridge's zeal for women's education and thus, indirectly, led to the foundation of Abbots Bromley School for Girls.
After her death, her friend, assistant and collaborator, Christabel Coleridge, published the biographical Charlotte Mary Yonge: her Life and Letters (1903).
-Wikipedia
The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship, a website with lots of information.
See Charlotte's character page for books about her.
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 Daisy Chain. A Book of Golden Deeds is a collection of true stories of courage and self-sacrifice. She also wrote Cameos from English History, Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands and Hannah More. Her History of Christian Names was described as "the first serious attempt at tackling the subject" and as the standard work on names in the preface to the first edition of Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 1944.
Her personal example and influence on her god-daughter, Alice Mary Coleridge, played a formative role in Coleridge's zeal for women's education and thus, indirectly, led to the foundation of Abbots Bromley School for Girls.
After her death, her friend, assistant and collaborator, Christabel Coleridge, published the biographical Charlotte Mary Yonge: her Life and Letters (1903).
-Wikipedia
The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship, a website with lots of information.
See Charlotte's character page for books about her.
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January 16, 2023
Another Charlotte Mary Yonge book I loved! This is an especially gripping read since it's written in first person.
June 17, 2017
Reading this Victorian novel which was free on Project Gutenberg.
The first section is about the horrible Victorian childhood of the Winslow family - uncaring nannies, bullying and the scorn and malice directed towards boys who didn't match up to the public school bully ideal. Throw in a bit of "useless cripple" for one child, and a stern patriarchal father, and the scene is set for the move to a haunted house.
The writing is oddly compulsive, despite me having to stop and yell at the screen because they were so dysfunctional, by modern standards that the social worker would have rightly taken the kids away from the family!
The first section is about the horrible Victorian childhood of the Winslow family - uncaring nannies, bullying and the scorn and malice directed towards boys who didn't match up to the public school bully ideal. Throw in a bit of "useless cripple" for one child, and a stern patriarchal father, and the scene is set for the move to a haunted house.
The writing is oddly compulsive, despite me having to stop and yell at the screen because they were so dysfunctional, by modern standards that the social worker would have rightly taken the kids away from the family!
March 7, 2021
This wasn't Charlotte Mary Yonge's best.
First of all 1st person doesn't suit her writing style nearly as well as 3rd. The narrator was just boring and I didn't get to know the characters well. It was not nearly as well written as her other books, and the characters had no character. I also disliked the spiritual sort of ghost element to it. I think this book was set a trifle earlier in time period than her other books and it shows. I didn't really like any of the characters, some had potential but it wasn't realized. It has quite a repetitive theme as from other of her books namely The Pillars of the house but not nearly as good.
First of all 1st person doesn't suit her writing style nearly as well as 3rd. The narrator was just boring and I didn't get to know the characters well. It was not nearly as well written as her other books, and the characters had no character. I also disliked the spiritual sort of ghost element to it. I think this book was set a trifle earlier in time period than her other books and it shows. I didn't really like any of the characters, some had potential but it wasn't realized. It has quite a repetitive theme as from other of her books namely The Pillars of the house but not nearly as good.
December 15, 2025
The story of a Victorian family who inherit Chantry House from a distant relative. Deaths, illness, scandal, religion and a ghost - all told by a Victorian writer who looks at the world in a Victorian way.(Maidenly modesty and self sacrifice very much the desirable female qualities.) Fascinating.
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