PREFACE
The idea of this tale was taken from The Mariners’
Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early
in the last century—­a curious book of narratives
of maritime adventures, w...
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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 w...
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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, Yong...
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