The Fellowship produces two (paper!) publications – the twice-yearly Review which is sent to all members; and the more occasional Journal, available to purchase. We hope to be able to display selected items from more Reviews in due course.
Autumn 2010
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A Character behing the Scenes – article by Julia Courtney |
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An Attack of the Vapours – article by Nina Coltart |
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CMY in The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins |
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Knitting Patterns as Female Algebra – article by Tig Lang |
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CMYF Spring Meeting, Durham – report by Alison Millard |
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John Henry Newman the Novelist – article by Barbara Dennis |
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The Beatification of John Henry Newman – short piece by Julia Courtney |
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A Letter from the Chairman – Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith | |
Book Review: Hilary Clare reviews Susan Walton's Imagining Soldies and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era: Charlotte Yonge's Models of Manliness |
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Letters to the Editor – Rev R H K Prosser, Dr Audrey Fessler, Jean Shell |
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Remembering Miss Yonge – extracts from contemporary newspapers |
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The Langley House Trust, Elderfield |
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The Charlotte Mary Yonge Society, April 2010 meeting – Report by Jean Shell |
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Christmas Games – Hilary Clare |
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The Influential Miss Yonge |
Spring 2010
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Pregnant Silences, or, "When do you expect your mother" – article by Susan Walton |
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Papists behind the Pillars: Hidden narratives in The Pillars of the House – article by Julia Courtney |
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Autumn Meeting of CMYF 2009, held in Friends' House on Euston Road. Report with photographs by Alison Millard |
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CMYF accounts, to June 2009 |
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Book Review – A History of the Mothers' Union: Women, Anglicanism and Globalisation by Cordelia Moyse. Review by Elisabeth Birch |
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CMY Quiz – Dress Sense |
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Dame Mildred Riddlesdell – Obituary and appreciation |
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Letters to the Editor – contributions from Mary Birch and Juliet Cairns | |
The Charlotte Mary Yonge Society – November 2009 meeting. Report by Jean Shell |
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Melanesian Mission – buy a boat appeal |
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Memorial to the late Miss Yonge – Order of Service |
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CMY Quiz – the answers |
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And now – Dickens's Desk (London Dickens Museum) |
Autumn 2009
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Speculations and Conjectures, a totally unscholarly paper (continued) - second part of an article by Mary Shakeshaft |
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Le Château de Melville - republished. Edited by CMYF member Hilary Clare, published by CMYF imprint Beechcroft Books. Article by Mary Birch |
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Spring 2009 Meeting of CMYF, held at West Oxford Community Centre. Report by Alison Millard |
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The Charlotte Mary Yonge Society - April 2009 meeting. Report by Jean Shell |
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Book Review - Lucy Sullivan's Shakespeare's Shattered Youth - laming or elixir? Review by Barbara Dennis |
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CMY Quiz - the answers |
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A bequest of books from Miss Margaret Slemeck |
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Letters to the Editor | |
All-time best novels - The Daisy Chain - from The Guardian, 21 February 2009 |
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Report on CMYF's Dom Andrew Johnson's ordination to the priesthood - by Lynne Rapson |
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A photograph of Charlotte Yonge - an article by David J Pearce |
Spring 2009
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Speculations and Conjectures, a totally unscholarly paper - first part of an article by Mary Shakeshaft |
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The Charlotte Mary Yonge Society - report of November 2008 meeting by Jean Shell |
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In Memoriam - an obituary for Charlotte Yonge - from Friendly Leaves, the Magazine of the Girls' Friendly Society |
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Sweet yet prickly leaves (June) - by Charlotte Yonge - from Friendly Leaves (Susan Walton and Ruth Miller) |
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CMYF 2008 Autumn Meeting in London - report by Alison Millard |
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Book Review - Clemence Schultze on Gavin Budge |
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Report on CMYF's Dom Andrew Johnson's ordination to the diaconate - by Lynne Rapson |
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CMYF accounts, to June 2008 |
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The influential Miss Yonge - other writers on Charlotte Yonge (sent in by members, collated by Alison Millard) | |
Letters to the Editor |
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Isobel Galilee - obituary |
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New books of interest to CMY readers |
Autumn 2008
Spring 2008
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The Release - article by Amy de Gruchy |
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Mary Elizabeth Townsend and the GFS - article by Barbara J Dunlap |
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Thoughts upon receiving Characters and Scenes - Linda Armitage |
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CMYF 2007 Autumn Meeting at the University Women's Club, London - report by Alison Millard |
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Melanesia News |
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More about the writing desk - report by Alison Millard |
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Heartsease and the fallen writing desk of Emilia Wyndham |
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E. Nesbit's lovers, or were they? |
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Pioneers and Founders - Fr Hugh Prosser |
Review Number 25
Autumn 2007
Review Number 24
Spring 2007
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Better than rubies - Jewellery in plot and character - article by G.M. Watkins |
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Tractarians and the "Condition of England" - article by Susan Walton |
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Was Jo reading the "Heir of Redclyffe" ? article by Alison Millard |
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CMYF Autumn Meeting 2006 - report |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge - short article by Alison Millard |
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Dorothy Ralphs 1926-2006 |
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Alethea Hayter 1914-2006 |
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As a matter of interest - items reported by Alison Millard |
Review Number 23
Autumn 2006
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The Sinister Miss Yonge - article by Hilary Clare |
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Georgina Battiscombe - obiturary by Alethea Hayter |
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Alethea Hayter - Memorial Service at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
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Lyle Eveillé - Memorial Servicen at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and tribute by Clemence Schultze |
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CMYF Spring Meeting and AGM, Chawton, Hamphire |
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CMYF Annual accounts |
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As a matter of interest - items reported by Alison Millard |
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How pleasant to know Miss Yonge - short article by Tig Lang |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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The Melanesian Misson |
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A Spouse's Lament - Fred Dowson |
Review Number 22
Spring 2006
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Visit to Tyntesfield - report by Alison Millard |
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The cyclamen in the churchyard - article by Vic Aspland |
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More about Charlotte Yonge's women priests - an article by Amy de Gruchy |
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The Langley House Trust, Elderfield. |
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Lyle Eveillé and Robert Wolton |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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Autumn Meeting of CMYF - report by Alison Millard |
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As a matter of interest - article by Alison Millard |
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Who is the Heir of Redclyffe? - article by Lucy Sullivan |
Review Number 21
Autumn 2005
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Quite a spicy hat - article by G.M. Watkins |
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Unpublished letters of C. M. Yonge - article by Shirley Foster |
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Charlotte Yonge and Barbara Pym - article by Lucy Sullivan |
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Spring Meeting and AGM at Gatty Hall, Ecclesfield - report by Alison Millard. With a contribution by Eddie Birch. |
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Some sources of books by Charlotte Yonge |
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Le Chateau de Melville - Hilary Clare |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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Charlotte Yonge and Rose Macaulay - article by Armorel Griffiths |
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Can W.J. Butler - a friend of Charlotte Yonge - article by Canon Donald Allchin |
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Would Ethel be a Bishop? - article by Mary Shakeshaft |
Review Number 20
Spring 2005
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A defence of 'The Dove'. - an article by Amy de Gruchy |
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Charlotte Yonge and railways - a preliminary study from 'The Daisy Chain' and 'The Trial' - article by R.H.K. Prosser |
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Tragedy & pathos in CMY's novels - article by Gwen Watkins |
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Autumn Meeting - report by Alison Millard |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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How pleasant to know Miss Yonge - pieces by Lyle Eveillé and Beryl Rosser |
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Truth and trust in 'The Trial' - short article by Alison Millard |
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'Short Pieces' 1 |
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The Global Village - Homage to Charlotte Yonge - poem by John Heath-Stubbs |
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'Short Pieces' 2 |
Review Number 19
Autumn 2004
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An extraordinary property - article by Lyle Eveillé |
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Susanna Clarke's first novel - article by Alison Millard |
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Marian Dyson's friendship - article by Alys Blakeway |
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The Bishop's Teapot - article by Alison Millard |
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Book Aid International |
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Spring 2004 Meeting and AGM at Oxford - report by Alison Millard |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society meeting - report by Jean Shell |
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Letter from Gwen Watkin |
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How pleasant to know Miss Yonge - from Father Hugh Prosser, Armorel Griffiths, Mary Birch, Robert Wolton and Hilary Weeks |
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Further thoughts on honeymoons - G. M. Watkins |
Review Number 18
Spring 2004
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– an article by Hilary Clare |
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Sintram and The Heir of Redclyffe – an article by Julia Courtney |
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Autumn 2003 meeting of the Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship (London) – Alison Millard |
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E. F. Benson and his Family and Friends – short book review by Alison Millard |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Society, November 2003 – brief report by Jean Shell |
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Dates for your Diary and Places to Visit |
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CMY needs help with Welsh |
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How pleasant to meet Miss Yonge ... |
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Pusey House – short piece by Geoffrey Gibraltar |
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Obituary – Nest Cleverdon |
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Six Melanesian Brothers Murdered – report from the Church Times, August 2003 |
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A Real Childhood – an autobiographical excerpt by Charlotte Mary Yonge |
Review Number 17
Autumn 2003
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The real Stokesley Secret – an article by G.M.Watkins |
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The Story of Tikopia – an article from the Melanesian News, by Brian Macdonald-Milne |
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Letters to the Editor – (Alison Millard) |
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Cameos from English History: From Rollo to Edward II - an article by Alison Millard |
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Summary of papers given at the Centenary Meeting - by Celia Bass |
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Report of Spring 2003 Meeting and AGM of CMYF in Edinburgh – report by Alison Millard |
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Meeting of the Charlotte Mary Yonge Society in Kensington – brief report by Jean Shell |
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Visiting the Laird – Julia Courtney (account of the 2003 CMYF visit to Abbotsford) |
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Answers to previous Notes and Queries |
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Notes and Queries for Autumn 2003 |
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Lady Todd of Zimbabwe: an appreciation |
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The Charlotte Mary Yonge website – an introduction by Martin Rush |
Review Number 16
Spring 2003
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Dress as character in Heartsease - article by G.M.Watkins |
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Answers to Notes and Queries |
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Discrepant dates - article by Andrew Johnson, OSB |
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Notes and Queries for Spring 2003 |
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Autumn meeting, 23 November 2002 - report by Alison Millard |
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Clement Underwood - article by Humphrey Clucas |
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November meeting of the Charlotte M. Yonge Society - report by Jean Shell |
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Obituary - Cdr. Philip Evelyn Yonge, OBE, DSC, RN (retired) |
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The Review in colour: note of thanks to Alan Roxborough - Alison Millard |
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Life of the Prince Consort (part 2) - article Alison Millard |
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A study day at Alton Abbey - report by Alison Millard |
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Notices of recently published books by Alethea Hayter (The Wreck of the Abergavenny) and Ann Thwaite (Glimpses of the Wonderful: the life of Philip Henry Gosee) |
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A Victorian Tragedy - short article by Jean Shell |
Review Number 15
Autumn 2002
Review Number 14
Spring 2002
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Some later readers of Charlotte M Yonge - article by G.M.Watkins |
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A girl on the train - R. H. K. Prosser |
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Charlotte's Ark - a CMY quiz - compiled by Cleodie MacKinnon |
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Enthronement of the Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell at Gibraltar - article by Pat Brockway |
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A Bishop in earlier times - short article by Alison Millard |
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Charlotte Yonge's dogs - article by Cecilia Bass |
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Autumn meeting, 17 November 2001 - report by Alison Millard |
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CMYF postcard of Charlotte Yonge (National Portrait Gallery) |
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Charlotte Yonge Study Day at Alton Abb, Spetember 1st 2001 - report by Alison Millard |
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Obituaries - Elizabeth Jennings CBE, Félicité Nesham (née Berryman), Professor Philip Drazin |
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Notes by Mrs Elgee, widow of the late Rev Walter Francis Elgee, first Vicar of Otterbourne |
Review Number 13
Autumn 2001
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A Miss Yonge Heroine - an article by G.M.Watkins |
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Serious Eating - an article by John Alves |
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An Oxford Quiz - by Hilary Clare |
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Centenary Meeting and AGM Report - by Celia Bass, with a contribution from Jean Shell |
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Summary of papers given at the Centenary Meeting - by Celia Bass |
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The CMY Society's Visit to Winchester - by Jean Shell |
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Editor's Notes - by Celia Bass |
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Letters to the Editor |
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CMYF Accounts for the year 2000 |
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An Oxford Quiz - the answers |
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Miss Yonge's Books on the Internet - by Sandra Laythorpe |
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CMYF at the Locating the Victorians conference, Imperial College |
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A Winchester Tale - a poem by Katie Fischel |
Review Number 12
Spring 2001
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Sonnet by C.M.P. |
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Who has the last word? - A Quiz |
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Dr Wesley and Dr Miles - by Humphrey Clucas |
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Mothers brought to Judgment - by John Alves |
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The Autumn Meeting, 2000 - by Celia Bass |
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Editor’s Notes - by Celia Bass |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Future Events |
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“Poor Mrs Hablot” - by Barbara Reynolds |
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Recent publications |
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CMY’s Obituary, Funeral Service & Charitable Bequests (from The Times of 1901) |
The recent publication mentioned in Review 12 is a book edited by Valerie Sanders (one of our members). It includes CMY's autobiographical fragment relating to her childhood.
Records of girlhood: an anthology of nineteenth-century women's childhoods.
Edited by Valerie Sanders
Nineteenth Century Series
Ashgate Publishing.
Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vermont, USA
Published 2000
ISBN 0 7546 0148 X
For more on books and articles about CMY, see our Bibliography page.
Review Number 11
Autumn 2000
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Plain and Peaky on the Sofa: Remembering the Invalids - an article by Cleodie MacKinnon |
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Names III: Nicknames - an article by John Alves |
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CMY Quiz - by Tig Lang |
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AGM - Report of our Sixth Annual General Meeting at Cheltenham Ladies College |
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Charlotte Yonge and Victorian Chivalry - summary of paper by Hilary Weeks |
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Guided tour of Cheltenham Ladies College |
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Call for CMY-related bibliographic information - by Philip Drazin |
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CMY Quiz - the answers |
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CMYF Accounts for the years ending December 1998 and December 1999 |
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Letters from Dorothy L Sayers |
Review Number 10
Winter 1999/2000
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A Foretaste of Eternity? Music in the major novels of Charlotte Yonge - an article by Cleodie MacKinnon |
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CMY "First Lines" Quiz - we supply the first line, you name the (non-historical!) novel |
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My Life with Charlotte Yonge - an article by Gwendoline Butler |
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Meeting - Report of our Autumn 1999 Meeting in London - by Celia Bass |
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The Child's Christian Year - summary of a paper by Dick Watson |
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Obituaries |
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St Thomas the Apostle |
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Noblesse Oblige - an article by John Alves |
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Georgina Battiscombe - by Gillian Peele |
Review Number 9
Summer 1999
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Hotter than Poomshedagore: Charlotte Yonge and India - an article by Cleodie MacKinnon |
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Names II - an article by John Alves |
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AGM - Report of our Fifth Annual General Meeting at St William's College, York |
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Brother/Sister Relationships in Charlotte Yonge - summary of paper by Valerie Sanders |
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A Passion for History: A Very Personal Look at Charlotte Yonge's Historical Novels - summary of paper by Stella Waring |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Aunt Charlotte. Historian : a jaundiced view |
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The Rise and Fall of The Constitutional Press: 1858-1860 - an article by Amy de Gruchy |
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Daughters - a short paper by Diana Fearon |
Review Number 8
Winter 1998/1999
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Charlotte M Yonge and Scotland - an article by Cleodie MacKinnon |
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Naughty Little Boys - an article by John Alves |
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Meeting - Report of our Autumn 1998 Meeting in London - by Mary Birch |
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Notes and Comments on The Trial - by John Alves |
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-- The 'Monitor' - what was it ? |
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-- The Siege of Vicksburg |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Editor's Notes - by Celia Bass |
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New Contributors - by Celia Bass |
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The Monthly Packet and Social Concern - an article by Celia Bass |
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Letters on Daily Life - from a letter to the aspirational from Elizabeth Sewell (originally published in The Monthly Packet. 1884) |
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Review Number 7
Summer 1998
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Charlotte Yonge and the Bank of England - an article by John Alves |
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The Kalabergo Murder: a possible source for the murder in The Trial |
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The Classic I Love - Kate Saunders' review of The Heir of Redclyffe (Oxford World's Classics edition) |
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Nature Copying Charlotte Yonge's Art - an article by Diana Fearon |
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The Winchester Day - report of April 1998 CMYF Meeting at Winchester and visit ot Otterbourne |
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1997 CMYF accounts |
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News and Notes |
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"A Thoroughly Spiteful Review" |
Review Number 6
Winter 1997 / 1998
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In Search of a Wife - article by Jane Sturrock |
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National Portrait Gallery, London - report of CMYF visit |
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Charlotte Yonge and Feminism |
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The Authors' favourite names for the characters in the novels of Charlotte M Yonge and Anthony Trollope - article by John Alves |
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Autumn 1997 Meeting of the Charlotte M Yonge Fellowship in London - report |
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The Essence of Vanity Fair - Lyle Eveillé |
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Letters to the Editor - including one from CMY relation Charlotte J Yonge, MA |
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An item of Woman's Lib - article by Diana Fearon |
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Editor's Notes |
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Jane Austen and Charlotte Yonge: the Heathcote Connection - article by Barbar J Dunlap |
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Review Number 5
Summer 1997
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Sarah - article by Diana Fearon |
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Charlotte Yonge's contributions to the Hursley Magazine 1848 & 1849 - article by Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Basingstoke |
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The Worksop Meeting |
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Oxford day |
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CMYF - News and Notes |
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The Trial - Life in Massissauga - article by Barbara Dunlap |
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Two versions of The Young Stepmother - article by Amy de Gruchy and Cecilia Bass |
Review Number 4
Winter 1996 / 1997
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Home in Indiana - Charlotte Yonge's Civil War - article by Barbara J Dunlap |
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Review of "Charlotte Yonge" by Alethea Hayter – review written by Alison Shell |
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CMYF autumn 1996 meeting in London - report |
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An illustrator's view - article by Dorothy H. Ralphs |
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Some Challenges of a Bibliographer - article by P.G. Drazin |
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Profile - article by Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith |
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CMYF - news and notes |
Review Number 3
Summer 1996
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Armed Robbery in Hopes and Fears - article by Jane Sturrock |
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Charlotte Yonge and Sense and Sensibility - article by Barbara J. Dunlap |
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First Annual General Meeting of the Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship (Birmingham) - report by Cecilia Bass |
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CMY meeting in York - report by Stella Waring |
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Charlotte Yonge in her time (paper by Barbara Dennis) - review by Cecilia Bass |
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Book news (notices of books by or about Charlotte M Yonge) - by Margot Charlton |
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News and Notes - by Margot Charlton |
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Report from the Melanesian Mission - by JMS |
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Editor's Notes - by Cecilia Bass |
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Charlotte Yonge's governesses - article by Diana Fearon |
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The Melanesian Mission and The Monthy Packet - extract from The Monthly Packet, with introduction by Cecilia Bass |
Review Number 2
Winter 1996
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Pioneering the Past - Charlotte Yonge as Historical Novelist - article by Hilary Clare |
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'A child of the Oxford Movement' - article by Rosemary Baker |
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The Portrait of Charlotte Mary Yonge by George Richmond RA - article by Lyle Eveille |
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Winchester Literary Festival - report by JMS |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship Inaugural Conference - report with photographs by Amy De Gruchy |
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Short HIstory of St Metthew's Church, Otterbourne |
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Charlotte Yonge and Margaret Kennedy - article by Wendy Forrester |
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Extract from Yonge's History of Christian Names - for the names Margaret and Will |
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Extract from An Old Woman's Outlook (1892) - February in Otterbourne |
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The Two Sides of the Shield - item by Diana Fearon |
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Profiles - from Lady Todd and Alison Rudd |
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News and notes - by Janet Clarke |
Review Number 1
Summer 1995
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Charlotte, then and now – article by Alison Shell |
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Editor's notes - by Janet Clarke |
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An unbroken chain - by Tim Whitcher (grandson of Charles Ray, gardener to Charlotte Yonge) |
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Treasures of the Girton archive - report on the visit of CMYF members to see CMY-related items at Girton College, Cambridge |
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Charlotte Yonge: first of the interwoven series writers - article by Stella Waring |
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Amabel and Mary Verena - a sequel to The Heir of Redclyffe - article by Phoebe Verschoyle |
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Charlotte Yonge's Letters in the British Museum - article by Margaret Birch |
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Discovering Charlotte Yonge - article by Diana Fearon |
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August in Otterbourne - a short extract from (1892) |
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Another challenge - ten "short answer" questions (light literary quiz) |
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Profile of a member - Barbara Dunlap |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge reading Jane Austen - an article by Jane Sturrock |
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The birth of "The Heir" - extracts from letters sent by Charlotte Yonge |
