Novelist, born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, S England, UK. She achieved a great popular success with her The Heir of Redclyffe (1853), and in all she published some 120 volumes of fiction, High Church in tone, which helped to spread the Oxford Movement. She also published children's books, historical works, translated a great deal, and edited a magazine for girls, The Monthly Packet.
Charlotte Mary Yonge (August 11, 1823 - May 24, 1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output, mostly now out of print.
She was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, into a religious family background, was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels.
Among the best known of her works are The Heir of Redclyffe, Heartsease, and The Daisy Chain.
Her personal example and influence on her god-daughter, Alice Mary Coleridge, played a formative role in Coleridge's zeal for women's education and thus, indirectly, lead to the foundation of Abbots Bromley School for Girls.
After her death, her friend, assistant and collaborator, Christabel Coleridge, published the biographical Charlotte Mary Yonge: her Life and Letters (1903).
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