Charlotte Mary Yonge may be "placed" in literary history as the leading novelist of that Anglo-Catholic revival known as Tractarianism, or the Oxford Movement; but this classification cannot explain why her domestic novels have always been enjoyed by man...
To say that Charlotte Mary Yonge's writings were designed to illustrate Tractarian principles at work in daily life is to convey a wholly misleading suggestion of dullness and dogmatism. In fact, Yonge's popularity in her own day (and among modern devote...
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Aloha, Magnum 05/01/1988: 1,086 words, approx. 4 pages
Only one thought consoles me with the imminent end of the "Magnum, P.I." epic tonight: I don't believe it. For umpteen years now, I've watched Thomas Sullivan Magnum rise like a phoenix after he's been shot, drowned, hit by cars, crashed, bashed in,...
Lucy Freeman Sandler, Omne bonum: A Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (London: Harvey Miller, 1996). 2 vols. 208 pp. + 118 plates; 272 pp. + 760 plates. ISBN 1-872501-75-3. 120.00 [pounds sterling]. Lucy Freeman Sandier has produced an absorbing account of an extraordinary...
