Charlotte Yonge, Famous Women, Hannah More, 1890
"Famous Women. Hannah More", by Charlotte M. Yonge, published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1890, copyright 1888.
Hard boards, original publisher's cloth, gold and black lettering; 4.1/2" x 7"; 227 pages + publisher's adds and 16-page catalog; very good condition.
"It is hard to explain or emphasize how important Hannah More [1745-1833] was in the transformation of "reading culture" in 19th century Britain. This work by Charlotte Yonge touches wonderfully on the impact that Hannah More had. In many senses as one reads the book one can see the mantel being passed from Hannah to Charlotte.
She traces the three stages of Hannah's growth from brilliant but jilted woman who finds a home in the Blue Stocking movement in London, then her time with David Garrick and his wife and the final but so important period when she created the paradigm that female writers were to function in as social reformers and spiritual mentors." [Bob Hitching, online review]
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist. Her books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement. Her abundant work is mostly out of print. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 160 works, chiefly novels. 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).
Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century. Among her admirers were Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Kingsley, Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones read "The Heir of Redclyffe" aloud to each other while undergraduates at Oxford University and "took [the hero, Guy Morville's] medieval tastes and chivalric ideals as presiding elements in the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." Yonge's work was compared favorably with that of Trollope, Jane Austen, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola.
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US: Priority (c.2-4 days) -------- ---- $9.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-10 weeks) ------- $32.50
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"Famous Women. Hannah More", by Charlotte M. Yonge, published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1890, copyright 1888.
Hard boards, original publisher's cloth, gold and black lettering; 4.1/2" x 7"; 227 pages + publisher's adds and 16-page catalog; very good condition.
"It is hard to explain or emphasize how important Hannah More [1745-1833] was in the transformation of "reading culture" in 19th century Britain. This work by Charlotte Yonge touches wonderfully on the impact that Hannah More had. In many senses as one reads the book one can see the mantel being passed from Hannah to Charlotte.
She traces the three stages of Hannah's growth from brilliant but jilted woman who finds a home in the Blue Stocking movement in London, then her time with David Garrick and his wife and the final but so important period when she created the paradigm that female writers were to function in as social reformers and spiritual mentors." [Bob Hitching, online review]
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist. Her books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement. Her abundant work is mostly out of print. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 160 works, chiefly novels. 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).
Yonge's work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century. Among her admirers were Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Kingsley, Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones read "The Heir of Redclyffe" aloud to each other while undergraduates at Oxford University and "took [the hero, Guy Morville's] medieval tastes and chivalric ideals as presiding elements in the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." Yonge's work was compared favorably with that of Trollope, Jane Austen, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola.
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US: Priority (c.2-4 days) -------- ---- $9.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-10 weeks) ------- $32.50
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