Yonge,

Yonge, CHARLOTTE MARY, a popular novelist, and an author of considerable range and versatility, the only daughter of W. C. Yonge, of Otterbourne, Hants, was born in 1823. She gained a large constituency of readers by her Heir of Redclyffe (1853) and its successors, and her industry may be judged from the fact that within forty-four years (1848-92) she had published at least 112 volumes, or almost three annually, besides works translated and edited, and the editorship of the Monthly Packet. Her novels are natural, show dramatic skill and literary grace, and inculcate a healthy morality; many of them are made the vehicle of High Church opinions. A portion of the profits of the Heir of Redclyffe was devoted by the authoress to fitting out the missionary schooner Southern Cross for Bishop Selwyn. The profits of the Daisy Chain, amounting it is said to £2000, she devoted to the building of a missionary college at Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to fiction Miss Yonge has published several historical works, a work on Christian Names (1863), a Life of Bishop Patteson (1873), and a monograph on Hannah More (1888). An illustrated edition of her more popular novels and tales was issued (1888-89) in 35 volumes.