S. Lewis, as an "arduous vocation."
Charlotte Yonge lived all her life in the village of her birth. Strongly attached by bonds of love and admiration to her parents, she remained in some respects a devoted and submissive daughter until her death at seventy-seven. Her father, William Yonge, had sacrificed his military career, his beloved Devonshire home, and many of his artistic tastes in order to gain the consent of his mother-in-law, a woman considered narrow by her own contemporaries, to his marriage to Frances Mary Bargus. He and his wife settled down on Mrs. Bargus's small estate in Otterbourne, near Winchester. Here he made a new life for himself out of village interests, church building, and the education of his daughter. He and his wife taught her Latin, French, German, history, and mathematics, in addition to giving her religious instruction. At the age of seven she began to hear lessons in the Otterbourne Sunday School; she went on to teach in the school, seldom missing more than a few weeks each year, until her death.
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