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and little foolishnesses, all their habits of mind 

 and speech, their delightful family all'ection, and 

 human varieties of goodness, to an inferior uni- 

 verse, in which, with all its faults, there are so 

 many such that a sympathetic and interested 

 audience can never be wanting." In person Miss 

 Yonge was tall, and in the latter portion of her 

 life, at any rate, somewhat stout, with an abun- 

 dance of white hair. Her manner upon a first 

 introduction was constrained, and it was not al- 

 ways easy to draw her into conversation, but 

 with better acquaintance the shyness wore away 

 and she would talk with animation, having, as it 

 would seem, a fund of anecdote and humor at 

 command. Elderfield, her home at Otterbourne, 

 is the last house at the southern end of the strag- 

 gling village, and across the highway stand the 

 parish school and church, the former owing much 

 of its practical helpfulness to the novelist's super- 

 vision, and the latter rebuilt by her father in the 

 later years of her girlhood. A few miles north 

 is the vicarage of Hursley, the home of Miss 

 Ypnge's friend, the poet John Keble, for a genera- 

 tion the vicar of the two parishes. The following 

 is a nearly complete list of Miss Yonge's pub- 

 lished works, with the exception of translations 

 from the French, which are not enumerated: The 

 Chateau de Melville, a collection of French exer- 

 cises and translations, the author's first book 

 (1843); Abbey Church (1844); Scenes and Char- 

 acters (1847); Kings of England: A History for 

 Young Children (1848; abridged, with questions, 

 1851); Langley School (1850); Hopes and Fears 

 (1850) ; Kenneth (1850) ; Henrietta's Wish (1850) ; 

 Two Guardians (1852); Landmarks of History: 

 Ancient History (1852); Landmarks of History: 

 Middle Ages (1853) ; The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) ; 

 The Little Duke, or Richard the Fearless (1854) ; 

 Castle Builders (1854); Heartsease (1854); His- 

 tory of Sir Thomas Thumb (1855); The Lances 

 of Lynwood (1855); Leonard the Lion-hearted 

 (1856); The Daisy Chain (1856); Ben Sylvester's 

 Word (1856); Dynevor Terrace (1857); Instruct- 

 ive Picture-Book, or Lessons from the Vegetable 

 World (1857); Landmarks of History: Modern 

 History (1857); Christmas Mummers (1858); 

 Marie Therese de Lamourous, abridged from the 

 French (1858); Conversations on the Catechism 

 (1859); Pigeon Pie: A Tale of the Roundhead 

 Times (1860); Friarswood Post-Office (1860); 

 Stokesley Secret (1861); The Young Stepmother 

 (1861); Biographies of Good Women (edited) 

 (1862) ; History of Christian Names (1863) ; Sea 

 Spleenwort, and Other Stories (1863); Wars of 

 Wapsburgh (1863); Countess -Kate (1863); His- 

 torical Drama: Containing The Mice at Play, The 

 Apple of Discord, The Stupid Falcon (1864) ; The 

 Trial: More Links of the Daisy Chain (1864); 

 A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All 

 Lands (1864); The Prince and the Page (1865); 

 The Clever Woman of the Family (1865); The 

 Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1866); The Danvers 

 Papers (1867); The Pupils of Saint John the 

 Divine (1867) ; Six Cushions (1867) ; Cameos from 

 English History, from Rollo to Edward II (1868) ; 

 The Chaplet of Pearls (1868); New Ground 

 (1868); A Book of Worthies gathered from the 

 Old Histories and Written Anew (1869); Key- 

 notes of the First Lessons for Every Day in the 

 Year (1869); The Seal (1869); Musings on the 

 Christian Year and Lyra Innocentium (1870); 

 The Caged Lion (1870); Scripture Readings 

 for Schools and Families (1871); A Parallel 

 History of France and England (1871); Pioneers 

 and Founders, or Recent Workers in the Mission 

 Fields (1871); Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe 

 (1871); P's and Q's, or the Question of Putting 



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Upon (with C. Coleridge, 1872); It] Mc:; 

 Bishop Patteson (1872); Lii< 01 ,],,\ t)l (,, 

 Patteson (1873); Lady Hester il-' 

 of the House (1873); Aunt Clni.i 

 of English History (1873); Ann! ( lu 

 Stories of French History (1874); My 

 Alcides (1875); Aunt Charlotte's Stone" 

 History (1875); Aunt Charlotte's Storie 

 History (1876); The Three Brides (17) 

 ankind (1876); Eighteen Centuries of Be^innin^- 

 of Church History (1876); Aunt Charlotte'* Sto- 

 ries of Roman History (1877); Aunt Charlotte '.-, 

 Stories of German History (1877); The Story ot 

 the Christians and Moors in Spain (1878) ; France: 

 A History Primer (1878); Disturbing Elements 

 in the Chronicles of the Blue Bell Society (1878) ; 

 Magnum Bonum (1879); History of France 

 (1879); Burnt Out (1879); Gold Dust: Counsels- 

 for the Sanctification (1880); Verses on the Gos- 

 pels for Sundays and Holidays (1880); Love and 

 Life (1880); Bye-Words (1880); Lads and Lasses- 

 of Langley (1881); Aunt Charlotte's Evenings at 

 Home with the Poets (1881) ; How to Teach the 

 New Testament ( 1881 ) ; Langley Little Ones ( 1882) ; 

 Frank's Debt (1882); Cheap Jack (1882); Sowing 

 and Sewing (1882); Pickle and his Page (1882); 

 Talks about the Laws we Live Under (1882); 

 Wolf (1882) ; Unknown to History: The Story of 

 Mary of Scotland (1882); Stray Pearls (1883); 

 Aunt Charlotte's Stories of American History, with 

 H. H. Weld (1883); Langley Adventures (1883); 

 Cameos from English History: England and 

 Spain (1883); Landmarks of Recent History: 

 1770-1883 (1884); The Armorer's 'Prentices 

 (1884); Nuttie's Father (1885); The Two Sides 

 of the Shield (1885); Chantry House (1886); 

 The Little Rick Burners (1886); A Modern Te- 

 lemachus (1886); Astray (with M. Bramston, C. 

 Coleridge, and E. Stuart) (1886); Cameos from 

 English History: The Stuart Rule (1887); Under 

 the Storm (1887); The Victorian Half -Century 

 (1887); What Books to Lend and What to Give 

 (1887); Hannah More, a Biography (1888); Our 

 New Mistress (1888); Nurse's Memories (1888); 

 Preparation of Prayer-Book Lessons (1888) ; Life 

 of H. R. H. the Prince Consort (1889) ; Beechcroft 

 at Rockstone (1889); The Cunning Woman's 

 Grandson (1889); A Reputed Changeling (1889); 

 More Bye-words (1890); The Slaves of Sabinus 

 (1890); The Constable's Tower (1891); That 

 Stick (1892); An Old Woman's Outlook in a 

 Hampshire Village (1892); The Cross-Roads 

 (1892); Grisly Grisell, or the Laidly Lady of 

 Whitburn (1893) ; Strolling Players (with C. Cole- 

 ridge) (1893) ; The Cook and the Captive (1894) ; 

 The Rubies of St. Lo (1894); The Carbonels 

 (1895); The Long Vacation (1895); The Release, 

 or Caroline's French Kindred (1896); The Ward- 

 ship of Steepcombe (1896) ; The Pilgrimage of the 

 Ben Beriah (1897) ; John Keble's Parishes (1898) ; 

 The Patriots of Palestine (1898); The Herdboy 

 and his Hermit (1899) ; The Making of a Mission- 

 ary (1900); The Herb of the Field; and Railway 

 Children. A recent writer, in speaking of Miss- 

 Yonge's personality, says that " in spite of her 

 excessive shyness, even a casual acquaintance 

 would have been impressed with the directness. 

 and force of her character. Her eyes had a quick, 

 responsive flash when anything moved her, and 

 she was so full of eager human sympathy that 

 a more intimate knowledge but deepened the im- 

 pression that she herself was greater than any- 

 thing she had done, and that she had missed, by 

 just too much or too little, among the influences 

 that shaped her life, the chance of writing her 

 name with the immortals." 



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