Charlotte M. Yonge (1823–1901)
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Foto taget av: Charlotte M. Yonge, May 8th 1866 Photographer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
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A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 1 (1882) 9 exemplar
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 2 (1882) 8 exemplar
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 3 (1882) 7 exemplar
Memoirs of Colonel Bugeaud: From His Private Correspondence and Original Documents, 1784-1815 (1888) — Redaktör — 6 exemplar
Life of John Coleridge Paterson : Volume 2 4 exemplar
English Church History 4 exemplar
The Monthly Packet — Redaktör — 3 exemplar
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 1-5 (1882) 3 exemplar
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 4 (1882) 3 exemplar
Willie's Trouble and How He Came Out of It — Författare — 2 exemplar
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations: From the Earliest Dates to the Present Time, Volume 5 (2016) 2 exemplar
The Slaves of Sabinus: Jew and Gentile 2 exemplar
Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, Volume 2 (1894) 2 exemplar
Monthly Packet, or, evening readings for members of the Englis church: July - December 1871 1 exemplar
Monthly Packet Christmas Numbers 1889 - 91 1 exemplar
Historical Dramas 1 exemplar
The Sea Spleenwort 1 exemplar
Sparks of Light For Every Day 1 exemplar
Bible Lovers Illustrated Library 1 exemplar
Complete Novels 1 exemplar
The Danvers Papers: An Invention 1 exemplar
The Complete Works of Charlotte Mary Yonge (60 Complete Works of Charlotte Mary Yonge Including The Heir of Redclyffe,… (2015) 1 exemplar
The Victorian Half Century: A Jubilee Book 1 exemplar
Stepping Stones in Bible Reading 1 exemplar
The Little Rick-Burners 1 exemplar
Flower Fables/Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe 1 exemplar
Aunt Charlotte's Stories of American History 1 exemplar
P's and Q's; or, The Question of Putting Upon / Leonard the Lion-Heart / The Railroad Children (1999) 1 exemplar
Preparation of Prayer-Book Lessons 1 exemplar
The Sea Spleenwort and Other Stories 1 exemplar
Grisly Grisell, Vol. 2 of 2; or, the Laidly Lady of Whitburn a Tale of the Wars of the Roses (2017) 1 exemplar
The Strayed Falcon 1 exemplar
The Hanoverian Period 1 exemplar
The Herb of the Field 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Yonge, Charlotte Mary
- Födelsedag
- 1823-08-11
- Avled
- 1901-05-24
- Begravningsplats
- Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, UK
- Yrken
- children's writer
teacher
novelist
magazine editor
author - Relationer
- Battiscombe, Georgina (biographer)
Keble, John (parish priest) - Organisationer
- Church of England
- Kort biografi
- Miss Charlotte M. Yonge was a successful fiction writer publishing some 120 volumes during her lifetime. She is most noted for her story "The Heir of Redclyffe" and her Book of Golden Deeds. She was greatly devoted to missionary work. She devoted some of her earnings to fund a missionary schooner for cruising the South Seas and funded the building of a missionary college in New Zealand.
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- 192
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- 7
- Medlemmar
- 3,172
- Popularitet
- #8,055
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 28
- ISBN
- 829
- Språk
- 5
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- 8
In the summer of 1822 Captain Edmund Carbonel, who ‘had been in the army just in time for the final battles of the Peninsular war’, comes to live at Greenhow Farm ‘an estate bringing in about £500 a year.’ It is the local ‘big house’ in the village of Uphill. He is accompanied by his young wife Mary and her sister Dorothea; another younger sister Sophia is still at school in London. The Uphill people are described as ‘a thoroughly bad lot … no one will do anything with them.’ Astonished at their poverty and crudity, the Carbonels decide to reform Uphill.
While dealing with serious societal shifts of the early nineteenth century, CMY’s gentle humour illuminates young people slightly out of their depth in dealing with their cunning rural neighbours. There is the involved saga of the upside-down length of wallpaper in their drawing-room, ‘very delicate white, on which were traced in tender colouring – baskets of vine leaves and laburnhams.’ But as Dora exclaims, ‘see, the laburnhams and grapes are hanging upward.’ The origin of this interior design disagreement sets up a dangerous antipathy between one of the workmen, Dan Hewlett and Captain Carbonel. Its denouement takes place in the thrilling final chapters of the novel with the Captain Swing riots of 1830.
Before that there is the old-fashioned (and to the Carbonels) ugly church with its enormous pews and the three-decker pulpit they find peculiar. They are shocked by Dame Verdon’s school, only kept in order by her young but energetic granddaughter. Villagers are differentiated with their many and overlapping stories: the mischievous but fascinating Tirzah Todd (with her ‘gypsy connections’ ) who disposes of her poacher husband’s game; the hypocritical Nanny Barton who always puts on ‘a white apron and brought out a big Bible when she saw the ladies’ about to visit and the gentle invalid Judith Grey and her poor sister Molly, wife of Dan who ‘had been going deeper into the mire ever since.’
To modern readers the Carbonels approach to improving the villagers’ lives and prospects can often be both crass and patronising. There is a shocking scene where Dora and Sophia cut off the dirty, ragged and pungent hair of the schoolgirls in triumphant delight. ‘Lend me your scissors, Mrs Thorpe’ is Dora’s battle cry before being carried away despite the shock and weeping of the children. Captain Carbonel, with the assent of Mary, reprimands Dora, ‘but the children were not your slaves … You have done more harm than you will undo in a hurry.’ Tirzah Todd warns her neighbours against the ‘gentlefolk, with their soft words and such’ who will treat them all, ‘just like the blackamoors.’
This is a slight Charlotte M. Yonge novel in comparison with many of her earlier and best works, one more of her many publications for the National Society. Nonetheless The Carobonels is full of argument, memorable characters and there was a sequel too.
This book was part of the November 2023 CMY Fellowship book group read.… (mer)