Charlotte M. Yonge

Titles in Fiction category:

• Abbeychurch    

  Rechauffes are proverbially dangerous, but everyone runs into them sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for many years 'out of print,' I have ventured to launch it once more-- imperfections and all ...

• Armourer's Prentices, The

  I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowe's Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Loftie's excellent history, and Dr. Burton's English Merchants.

• Beechcroft at Rockstone

  'A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,' said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, ...

• Caged Lion, The

  When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost u ...

• Chantry House

  'And if it be the heart of man
     Which our existence measures,
  Far longer is our childhood's span
     Than that of manly pleasures.
  
  'For long each month and year is then,
     Their thoughts and days extending,
  But months and years pass swift with men
     To time's last goal descend

• Chaplet of Pearls, The

  It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. 'Old Mortality' ...

• Corporal Cameron

  "Oh-h-h-h, Cam-er-on!" Agony, reproach, entreaty, vibrated in the clear young voice that rang out over the Inverleith grounds. The Scottish line was sagging!--that line invincible in two years of International conflict, the line upon which Ireland and England had broken their pride. Sa ...

• Countess Kate

  "There, I've done every bit I can do! I'm going to see what o'clock it is."

• Daisy Chain, or Aspirations, The    

  No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the "tale" for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both.

• Dove in the Eagle's Nest, The

  In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag's first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some ...

• Friarswood Post Office

  'Goodness! If ever I did see such a pig!' said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. 'I wouldn't touch him with a pair of tongs!'

• Heir of Redclyffe, The    

  In such pursuits if wisdom lies,
  Who, Laura, can thy taste despise?--GAY

• Herd Boy and His Hermit, The

  I can conduct you, lady, to a low
  But loyal cottage where you may be safe
  Till further quest.--MILTON.

• Little Duke, The    

  On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy.

• Long Vacation, The

  If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic po ...

• Nuttie's Father

  'For be it known
   That their saint's honour is their own.'--SCOTT.

• Stokesley Secret, The

  "How can a pig pay the rent?"

• Two Sides of the Shield, The

  It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in calling on the very ...