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...
I was born in Durham, NC. Home of really good barbeque, a powerful tobacco lobby, and one of the biggest college basketball rivalries in the nation. When I was born, the hospital nurses were confronted by my unusual name ("Miriam" didn't even make the...
FOR quite a while I've wanted to write a letter to my girls, my nieces, my little sisters. Time has passed, new ones have burst upon the world; others have matured into independent young women. Yet, the need is still here--to give and to...
