Charlotte m yonge authoritative parenting

“Treacherous child!” cried Rachel, putting up her hands and tossing her head, but her sister held her still..

There prevails a tendency to read Yonge's work only for its religious or didactic qualities, but far from representing a formal dead-end, as critics such as.

  • This chapter analyses the critical representation of changing baby care methods in Charlotte Yonge's fiction to parse the growing awareness of competitive.
  • “Treacherous child!” cried Rachel, putting up her hands and tossing her head, but her sister held her still.
  • 'Let me see, he is just of Harry's age,' said Ethel, thoughtfully, as if she had not the strongest faith in Harry's power of supplying a parent's place.
  • Mother's authoritative influence.

    • Online text of The Young Stepmother

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    From The Young Stepmother

    "After all, childhood, if not the happiest, is the saddest period of life – pains, griefs, petty tyrannies, neglects, and terrors have not the alleviation of the experience that 'this also shall pass away'; time moves with a tardier pace, and in the narrower sphere of interests, there is less to distract the attention from the load of grievances".

    With thanks to Lesley Hall for this quotation.

    Text kindly supplied by Amy de Gruchy,
    and prepared for the website by Esther McGilvray

    Publication

    April 1856 - December 1860 serialised in The Monthly Packet, published by John and Charles Mozley.
    1861 Published in book form by Parker and Son.

    Summary of Contents

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    The Two Versions

    C. M. Yonge always revised her serials for book publication, often consider