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Charlotte Mary Yonge

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born

August 11, 1823 in Otterbourne, Hampshire, The United Kingdom

died

May 24, 1901

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female

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Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 - 24 May 1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.

She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 160 works, chiefly novels.[8] Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1853), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with the profits from later novels. Yonge was also a founder and editor for forty years of The Monthly Packet, a magazine (founded in 1851) with a varied readership, but targeted at British Anglican girls (in later years it was addressed to a somewhat wider readership).

Among the best known of her works are The Heir o...more

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Books by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Average rating: 3.51 · 321 ratings · 60 reviews · 173 distinct works

	The Daisy Chain, Or, Aspirations: A Family Chronicle 3.29 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1856 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Clever Woman of the Family 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1865 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Little Duke 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1854 — 50 editions	My rating:
	The Heir Of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge, Barbara Dennis 3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1853 — 38 editions	My rating:
	Countess Kate 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1862 — 23 editions	My rating:
	History of France by Charlotte Mary Yonge, J.R. Green (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1882 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Grisly Grisell 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 38 editions	My rating:
	The Pillars of the House 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1893 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Heartsease 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Dove in the Eagle's Nest 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1866 — 42 editions	My rating: