Author: Christabel Coleride
Title: Charlotte Mary Yonge Her Life and Letters
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition copy of Christabel Coleridge's biography of author, Charlotte Mary Yonge published two years after her death. Copiously illustrated with black and white plates throughout, including a frontispiece of Charlotte Mary Yonge. Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist who dedicated her talents as a writer to the service of the church. Her books helped to spread the influence of the 'Oxford Movement' which sought to bring about a return of the Church of England to the High Church ideals of the late 17th century. Yonge began writing in 1848, publishing during her long life about 160 works, chiefly novels such as 'The Heir of Redclyffe', 'Heartsease' and 'The Daisy Chain&apos. Yonge also edited a magazine for girls, 'The Monthly Packet', for which she wrote historical cameos, and composed religious tracts. Christabel Rose Coleridge a close friend, assistant and confidante of Yonge was an English novelist in her own right, who also edited girls' magazines. Coleridge's family background as the granddaughter of the eminent poet Samuel Coleridge inspired within her a love of writing, and she went on to publish more than fifteen novels. Much like Yonge, her fiction expressed her concern with morality, and several of her books were published by the 'Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge&apos. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Externally, smart. Rubbing to boards and joints. Some edgewear and browning to contemporary library label. Hinges starting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few pages. Browning to the tissue guards facing plates. Browning to front free endpaper. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .

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