The complete online text of The Long Vacation by Charlotte Mary Yonge.

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...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-17-2001 TO LONG VACATIONS -- MAYBE THE PRESIDENT WILL SET A TREND Date: 08-17-2001, Friday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B PRESIDENT BUSH is more than halfway through...

As a social inquiry, "Tell me all about your vacation" is in a category with "What does your baby do now?" and "How's that contractor coming with the repairs on your house?" Extreme caution must be exercised before interpreting such questions as the starting...

Standing next to Jenny Lake, park ranger Diane McGee tells students about the plants and animals at Grand Teton National Park. "Very soon, we will have snow falling on the ground," she says. "Winters here are very long. We get up to 200 inches of...

1. Great FallsFollow the trail of Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea into the Old West and spend your holiday weekend under the Big Sky. Picture Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It, knee deep in a rivulet of the Missouri River, rod in hand, the...