Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Charlotte M. Yonge IS Dead. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Charlotte M. Yonge IS Dead.

Charlotte M. Yonge, the noted novelist, died last week, aged 78. Her death took place at Elderfield, Otterbourne, her home in Winchester, in which she spent almost all of her life. Her first success in letters, which immediately established her reputation, was ‘“The Heir of Redclyffe.” Miss Yonge’s life was quite uneventful. She was the daughter of a country the doctrines of what is caled the highmagistrate of Hampshire and her education was conducted altogether by her parents, her father being her principal tutor. She was a most religious woman and all of her works—which are principally in fictional form —were

written to enforce, by the lesson of the plot, and in a plain and sober manner, the doctrines of what is called the high church school of opinion. Many of her books have gone through several editions and have been reprinted in cheap forms.

It was said that out of the pjroflts she received from the publication of her “Daisy Chain” she gave SIO,OOO for the establishment of a missionary college at Auckland, New Zealand. She likewise devoted a large portion of the proceeds of “The Heir of Redclyffe” to fitting out the missionary schooner, Southern Cross, for the use of Bishop Selwyn. One of her most interesting books is a “History of Christian Names and Their Derivation,” which was published in 1863.

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.