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.
74-5
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.

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Textual Production Marghanita Laski
ML edited and introduced Victorian Tales for Girls, which includes tales by Mary Louisa Molesworth , Charlotte Yonge , Frances Hodgson Burnett , Juliana Ewing , Annie Fellows-Johnston , and one anonymous author.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia et al. Victorian Tales for Girls. Editor Laski, Marghanita, Pilot Press.
prelims
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
Jointly with biographer and writer Georgina Battiscombe , ML edited and contributed to a volume of essays for the Charlotte M. Yonge Society : A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge.
Battiscombe published a successful first...
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Anne Manning
Charlotte Yonge cites this by two further alternative titles: Passages in the Life of an Authoress and Some Passages in the Life of an Authoress. It was never finished and never appeared in book...
Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
GF enjoyed a high literary and personal reputation during and immediately after her life. One article, published soon after her death in The Catholic World, compared her favourably with Jane Austen , and claimed...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot , Charlotte Yonge , Marie Corelli , Edith Wharton , Naomi Mitchison , Amabel Williams-Ellis
Textual Production Emma Jane Worboise
EJW also wrote novels which respond in similar manner to Charlotte Yonge 's Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife and Elizabeth Sewell 's Amy Herbert. In each of these (titled respectively Hearts-ease in the Family...
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
This means AG was aiming at the market dominated by the work of Charlotte Yonge . Her books for the young were often read to pieces, but most went through a series of reprints. Some...
Textual Production Helen Mathers
A publisher's note in the one-volume publication of 1892 called the book a genuine novelty. The idea of a novel written by twenty-four popular writers is certainly an original one. The ladies and gentlemen who...
Textual Production Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert) and...
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
Her essay addresses several works by women writers: Sophia Lee 's The Recess, Emily Finch 's Last Days of Mary Stuart, Charlotte Yonge 's Unknown to History, and Harriet Martineau 's The Anglers of the Dove.
Mew, Charlotte. Collected Poems and Prose. Editor Warner, Val, Carcanet and Virago.
378-9, 381
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
EMD contributed an introduction to Georgina Battiscombe 's biography Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Story of an Uneventful Life.
British Book News. British Council.
(1943): 931
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI 's Hampshire Pilgrimages: Men and women who have sojourned in Hampshire, presented brief lives of Austen , Charlotte Mary Yonge , Florence Nightingale , Gilbert White , William Cobbett , and Joseph Stevens .
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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Textual Production Frances Trollope
FT published a novel entitled The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman, Illustrated with occasional extracts from her diary.
Charlotte Yonge had not yet published her novel The Clever Woman of the Family...

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