An important start to the bicentenary year is the publication of a collection of scholarly essays on Charlotte M Yonge: Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age, edited by our members Clare Walker Gore, Clemence Schultze and Julia Courtney, and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information is available at the publisher’s page for the book.
This collection of essays (many by CMYF members) celebrates Yonge’s literary achievement and explores her work in context.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction Clare Walker Gore, Clemence Schultze and Julia Courtney
Part I Home and Family
2 ‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing Valerie Sanders
3 A Woman’s Outlook: Charlotte Yonge’s Sense of Place Julia Courtney
4 Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the ‘Mother-Sister’ Tamara S. Wagner
5 ‘A Lady with a Profession’:The Governess, the Invalid, and the Woman Question in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge Clare Walker Gore
6 ‘Hard Cash is A Necessary Consideration’: Money and Class in Charlotte M. Yonge’s Novels of Contemporary Family Life Susan Walton
Part II Society and Ideologies
7 ‘The Wheels of this World’: Science, Enquiry, and Progress in Charlotte Yonge’s Novels Clemence Schultze
8 Charlotte Mary Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community Rosemary Mitchell
9 Architecture, Faith, and Charlotte M. Yonge William Whyte
10 Charlotte Yonge and Mission Barbara Dennis
11 Charlotte Yonge and the World beyond Europe Terry Barringer
Part III Criticism and Reception
12 Looking Through the Past: Charlotte Yonge as Historical Novelist Hilary Clare
13 ‘A Sort of Instrument for Popularizing Church views’: Charlotte Yonge, Her Mentors, and Her Publishers Ellen Jordan
14 Charlotte M. Yonge, Religious Conversion, and Victorian Modernity Gavin Budge
15 Charlotte M. Yonge and the Realist Tradition Maia McAleavey
16 Reading the Reception History of Charlotte Yonge Talia Schaffer