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Updated: June 9, 2025
Clara was at the window, Maggie in Darius's chair reading a novel of Charlotte M Yonge's. On the table, open, was a bound volume of "The Family Treasury of Sunday Reading," in which Clara had been perusing "The Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family" with feverish interest.
She was at home on the stage, she faced a thousand people with a pert, a brazen attitude, and said, 'Look at me; enjoy me, as I enjoy your fervent glances; I am here to tickle your fancy. Patience! She was no more Patience than she was Sister Dora or a heroine of Charlotte Yonge's.
And it was a pleasant thought to me, when I glanced lately at the golden deeds of women in Miss Yonge's book it was a pleasant thought to me, that I could say to myself Ah! yes. These heroines are known, and their fame flies through the mouths of men. But if so, how many thousands of heroines there must have been, how many thousands there may be now, of whom we shall never know.
The Camden Society has published the correspondence of James with Cecil, and Walter Yonge's "Diary." The letters and works of Bacon, now fully edited by Mr. Spedding, are necessary for any true understanding of the period. Hacket's "Life of Williams" and Harrington's "Nugæ Antiquæ" throw valuable side-light on the politics of the time.
As an evidence of his success, we name a few out of his large list: 'Miss Yonge's Histories; 'Spare Minute Series, most carefully edited from Gladstone, George MacDonald, Dean Stanley, Thomas Hughes, Charles Kingsley; 'Stories of American History; Lothrop's Library of Entertaining History, edited by Arthur Gilman, containing Professor Harrison's 'Spain, Mrs.
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