Charlotte Yonge

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Standard Name: Yonge, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Pseudonym: Aunt Charlotte
CY was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She became famous without adopting many of the habits of the Victorian professional author: she published anonymously and donated most of her earnings to charity. Though her most successful titles remained household names for generations, many others in the Macmillan Uniform Edition were quickly forgotten.
Delafield, E. M., and Georgina Battiscombe. “Introduction”. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life, Constable and Company, pp. 9-15.
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Her underlying purpose is always religious. Her biographer Georgina Battiscombe writes that filial duty is her great theme, to which both love and common sense must be sacrificed.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company.
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She advises submission as a Christian duty and not as an exclusively gendered ideal. She deals also in religious scruples and struggles: confirmation (as the climax of an education in spiritual self-examination) is often an issue for her characters.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Cultural formation Cecil Frances Alexander
In 1848 CFA met British novelist Charlotte Yonge and the leader of the Oxford Movement , John Keble .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
CFA 's husband believed that Keble endowed her with a sense of the magic, of the...
Reception Mary Anne Barker
The Times, reviewing Sybil's Book in late 1873, found it both delightful and thoroughly original.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
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Betty Gilderdale endorses this, calling it the first book to be published in England for teenage girls...
Reception Rhoda Broughton
An article by Eliza Lynn Linton written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB 's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else,
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
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, pp. 196-09.
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but that without...
Publishing Rosa Nouchette Carey
RNC published in three volumes Heriot's Choice: a Tale, which had first appeared serially in the Monthly Packet (edited by Charlotte Yonge ), between 1877 and this year.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Hartnell, Elaine. Gender, Religion, and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey. Ashgate.
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Literary responses Rosa Nouchette Carey
Elaine Hartnell argues that the reception of RNC 's work was tied somewhat to its modes and places of publication, notably her serialisation in journals edited by Ellen Wood , Charlotte Yonge , and Annie S. Swan
Literary responses Rosa Nouchette Carey
During her lifetime there was no shortage, in reviews of her novels in the popular press, of such adjectives as fresh, charming, and pretty, handy for quoting in listings of her works...
Literary responses Elizabeth Charles
Although she made little money, EC made a name for herself with the Chronicles. The novel went through several editions, as well as being translated into many European languages, Arabic, and numerous Indian dialects...
Textual Features Elizabeth Charles
A sequel to Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived In (published a decade earlier), it traces a branch of the Schönberg-Cotta family who have now become part of the sheltered, orderly English middle-class.
Charles, Elizabeth. The Bertram Family. Garland.
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Textual Features Mary Cholmondeley
MC details the various manuscripts left by Hester: a journal describing everything she read, a journal about bee-keeping, and a notebook containing brief biographies of important figures, as well as notebooks of quotations, poetry, and...
Textual Production Christabel Coleridge
CC co-authored the epistolary novel The Miz Maze; or, The Winkworth Puzzle, A Story in Letters, by Nine Authors along with Charlotte Yonge , Mary Bramston , Frances Awdry and others.
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Textual Production Christabel Coleridge
CC 's hagiographic life and letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge appeared in both England and the USA
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
61 (13 March 1903): 77
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Coleridge
CC and her distant cousin the novelist Charlotte Yonge shared a close and lifelong friendship.
Friends, Associates Christabel Coleridge
In addition to her relationship with Charlotte Yonge , CC had a productive friendship with Mary Bramston . The move to Torquay made her one of a group of women writers in the area, all...
Textual Features Ivy Compton-Burnett
The protagonist, a clergyman's daughter, lives up to her name. She is a child at her mother's graveside in the book's opening scene: by the age of thirty-three she has repeatedly sacrificed her hopes of...
Cultural formation Frances Cornford
She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...

Timeline

1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...

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1765

The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.

14 September 1767: Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at...

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14 September 1767

Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn (in London near the present Marble Arch) for the murder of Mary Clifford , a workhouse apprentice.

1832: Joseph Henry Parker took over his uncle's...

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1832

Joseph Henry Parker took over his uncle's Oxford bookselling and publishing business; as J. H. Parker it soon became the foremost publisher of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement.

5 February 1836: The children's writer Dorothy Kilner died...

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5 February 1836

The children's writerDorothy Kilner died at Stratford near London; she and her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Kilner (1753-1831), published their anonymous, undated works through John Marshall from the 1770s.

By 7 November 1874: Mary Bramston (a friend of Charlotte Yonge...

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By 7 November 1874

Mary Bramston (a friend of Charlotte Yonge and Christabel Coleridge ) published a comedicnovel entitled The Carbridges.

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.

June 1899: The Evangelical magazine The Monthly Packet...

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June 1899

The EvangelicalmagazineThe Monthly Packet ceased publication, nine years after its original editor, Charlotte Yonge , had resigned from it.

Texts

Yonge, Charlotte. A Book of Golden Deeds. Macmillan, 1864.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1872.
Yonge, Charlotte. Abbeychurch. James Burns, 1844.
Yonge, Charlotte. An Old Woman’s Outlook in a Hampshire Village. Macmillan, 1892.
Mozley, Anne, and Charlotte Yonge. “Appendix D: Clever Women”. The Clever Woman of the Family, edited by Clare Simmons and Clare Simmons, Broadview, 2001, pp. 591-8.
Yonge, Charlotte et al. Astray. Hatchards, 1886.
Yonge, Charlotte. Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of English History for the Little Ones. Marcus Ward, 1873.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. Biographies of Good Women. J. and C. Mozley, 1862.
Yonge, Charlotte. Countess Kate. J. and C. Mozley, 1862.
Yonge, Charlotte. Deacon’s Book of Dates. C. W. Deacon, 1888.
Yonge, Charlotte. Dynevor Terrace. John Parker, 1857.
Yonge, Charlotte. Hannah More. W. H. Allen, 1888.
Yonge, Charlotte. Heartsease. John Parker, 1854.
Yonge, Charlotte. Henrietta’s Wish. Joseph Masters, 1850.
Sewell, Elizabeth, and Charlotte Yonge. Historical Selections. Macmillan, 1868.
Yonge, Charlotte. History of Christian Names. Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1863.
Yonge, Charlotte. Hopes and Fears. John Parker, 1860.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. “Introduction”. Victorian Tales for Girls, edited by Marghanita Laski, Pilot Press, 1947, pp. 7-12.
Yonge, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Clever Woman of the Family, edited by Clare Simmons, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 7-26.
Yonge, Charlotte. Kings of England. J. and C. Mozely, 1848.
Yonge, Charlotte. Life of John Coleridge Patteson. Macmillan, 1874.
Yonge, Charlotte. Magnum Bonum. Macmillan, 1879.
Yonge, Charlotte. Modern Broods. Macmillan, 1900.
Yonge, Charlotte. New Ground: Kaffirland. Derby, 1868.
Yonge, Charlotte. Pioneers and Founders. Macmillan, 1871.