..., 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...

...” in the novels of Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant (12). Chapter 2 considers “the information system” as an organizing principle in sensation and mystery fiction, including novels by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (13). The third chapter takes up Alan Turing's idea of “the imitation...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...