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...
An extract from "Devotion," a novel-in-progress. Andrew Moore closes his eyes, grips the balustrade and lifts his face to the sky. He draws several slow, deep breaths. Minutes pass. Daytime ebbs. He waits. His body tenses. He loosens his tie. It comes, the...
How good is Penn State? If you look at their 5-0 record, which includes a 44-14 victory over Minnesota last Saturday, you would have to concede that coach Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions are better than they have been in the last five years....