..., they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles...

... than any wells of empathy or recognition. In four chapters, Ward tests out four versions of this aesthetic effect. The first chapter explores the model of “the feedback loop” in the novels of Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant (12). Chapter 2 considers “the information system...

... education. The theme of educational testing extends the range of Lee's texts not only to Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Anthony Trollope's The Three Clerks but also to Frederic Farrar's Julian Home , Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain , Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall , and in due course, to civil service...

... that Rowe and readers alike learn to read against the grain. Greene begins each chapter of The Ministry of Fear with an epigraph from Charlotte M. Yonge's 1854 novel The Little Duke, or Richard the Fearless —a popular work of didactic children's literature recounting the life of the great...

... chronicles like Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain (1856) or Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868–69) shows this popular genre doing something quite similar at the level of narrative form. Where such novels as Jane Eyre (1847), David Copperfield (1850), and Jude the Obscure (1894–95) came up...

... novelists that had me (a confessed addict of Victorian pulp) scrawling down name after name: R. M. Ballantyne, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charles Rowcroft, and obscure works by Grant Allen, but also such Canadian writers as the sisters Catherine Parr (Strickland) Traill and Susanna Strickland Moodie...

... instances of the sentimental possibilities of shipping news in novels as varied as Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers, and Charlotte Mary Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe, showing how frequently this device found its way into courtship plots...