Born: 11 August 1823, United Kingdom
Died: 24 March 1901
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Charlotte Mary Yonge, an English author, born in Hampshire. This prolific writer of the Victorian era produced about 120 volumes, including novels, tales, school manuals, histories and biographies.
Her first conspicuous success was attained in 1853 with The Heir of Redclyffe, which enjoyed an enormous vogue. Among other popular books were: The Daisy Chain, Heartsease, The Young Stepmother, and The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest.
She also edited various educational works, and was far more than thirty years editor of the Monthly Packet.
Miss Yonge’s works are didactic and orthodox, but they exercised a wide and wholesome influence, and she remains a school classic. Her long life was spent in her native town of Otterbourne.
From Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Designed and Arranged by William C. King. Published in 1900 by The King-Richardson Co. Copyright 1903 The King-Richardson Co.:
Charlotte M. Yonge, English Novelist and Historian, 1823 – 1901 A.D.
Miss Yonge has been a most prolific writer, having published about one hundred and twenty-five volumes of fiction and a large number of national histories for younger readers. She is an ardent supporter of high church views and this appears in nearly all of her books.
She gained a large circle of readers by The Heir of Redclyffe, which appeared in 1853. A large part of the early profits from this book were used to fit out the missionary schooner, “Southern Cross,” for Bishop Selwyn.
From the profits of her book Daisy Chain she gave £2,000 to build a missionary college in New Zealand.
Her historical works include Greece, Rome, France, Germany, England and the United States.
She has also written History of Christian Names and their Derivation and Story of English Missionary Workers. Several of her histories for young people were rewritten so that they could be read and enjoyed by the small children as, for example, Aunt Charlotte’s Roman History for the Little Ones.
Among her many works of fiction are the following: Lances of Lynwood, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster, Clever Woman of the Family, Prince and Page, A Story of the Last Crusade, The Dove in the Eagle’s nest.