Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . Hampshire squire and magis-trate, was born at Otterbourne near Winchester ;and when Keble came to Hursley vicarage (towhich the living of Otterbourne was annexed) hefound her an intellectual, impressionable, and well-educated girl of thirteen. When she began towrite authorship was considered unladylike, and a family council consented to the publication ofAbbey Church only on condition that she shouldn
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . Hampshire squire and magis-trate, was born at Otterbourne near Winchester ;and when Keble came to Hursley vicarage (towhich the living of Otterbourne was annexed) hefound her an intellectual, impressionable, and well-educated girl of thirteen. When she began towrite authorship was considered unladylike, and a family council consented to the publication ofAbbey Church only on condition that she shouldnot accept the pecuniary returns for any personalend—a condition she then and afterwards cheerfulh-complied with. She gained a large constituencyof readers by her Hei? of Redclyffe (1853) and itssuccessors ; and her industry may be judged fromthe fact that within forty-four years (1848-92) shehad published well over a hundred volumes (almostthree annually), besides books translated and edited,and work done as editor of the MontJily ]\ novels are straightforward and natural, shownot a little dramatic skill and literary grace, andinculcate a high and healthy moralit), though they. CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. have not the charm of works of genius. JMany ofthem are made the vehicle of High Church opinions ;for though Miss Yonge was bred in an evangelicalhousehold, the teaching of the Tractarians and herclose personal friendship with Keble were the mostoutstanding influences in the formation of her lifeand thought. An unwonted element of chivalrywas hap]3ily grafted on the realism of contem-porary English domestic life. Charles Kingsleysaid Heartsease was the most wholesome anddelightftil novel he had ever read ; and, singularto relate (as it seems to us now), William Morris,Burne Jones, and their group at Oxford adoptedas their model the hero of the Heir of Redclyffe.,Sir Guy Morville, a Crusader in modern life. Theprofits from the Heir of Re
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