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Two Penniless Princesses
You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 Ð 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, nŽe Bargus. She was educated at home by her father, studying Latin, Greek, French, Euclid and algebra. Her father's lessons could be required a diligence and accuracy that were utterly alien to me. He thundered at me so that nobody could bear to hear it, and often reduced me to tears, but his approbation was so delightful that it was a delicious stimulus... I believe, in spite of all breezes over my innate slovenliness, it would have broken our hearts to leave off working together. Excerpt
128 pages, Paperback
Published February 5, 2016
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
742 books77 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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November 10, 2017
This was my least favorite Charlotte Mary Yonge book I've read so far. It's a historical fiction novel, and it didn't incorporate the deep, religious ideas contained in many of her other books. Something about the story line just didn't appeal to me much, and I had to force myself to finish it. There's nothing wrong with the book, but it just wasn't that interesting to me personally.
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January 2, 2013
I don't know why this book has such a low rating (currently 3.00). It was one of those free classics that came with my ebook reader that I try to get around to reading eventually in some sort of mad desire for self-improvement and it really was one of the best written books I've read in absolutely ages.
Considering the date the book was written, the even older period in history when it was set and the use of broad Scots, it is an amazingly readable novel about two of the Scottish King James I's daughters as they leave Scotland in search of better prospects.
It is apparently a sequel to The Caged Lion which I shall be adding to my to-read list.
Considering the date the book was written, the even older period in history when it was set and the use of broad Scots, it is an amazingly readable novel about two of the Scottish King James I's daughters as they leave Scotland in search of better prospects.
It is apparently a sequel to The Caged Lion which I shall be adding to my to-read list.
July 24, 2013
The Scots brogue was sometimes difficult to understand but did not detract too much from the story. This was not one of the more enjoyable C M Yonge stories but they all have an appeal because of the time in which they were written. They can be a challenge!
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March 6, 2014
June 29, 2016
a difficult read because of the language being old fashioned, but I'm glad I stuck it out. princesses, and their Knights that save them. a true fairy tale.
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