A spinster heiress takes charge of the orphaned children of the man she once loved and discover that good intentions are not the same as good judgement. Yonge wrote this kind of household with more honesty about its failures than any of her imitators. This edition carries fifty-seven plates after Edward Hicks, Arthur Hughes and Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen, among others, and two restored and coloured illustrations.
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Love and Life : An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
A Modern Telemachus : Shipwrecked Children Cross Barbary
Friarswood Post-Office : A Village Post-Office and a Wandering Boy
The Herd Boy and His Hermit : A Shepherd Boy in the Wars of the Roses
Cameos from English History : From Rollo to Edward II
History of France : From the Early Kings to the Third Republic
Beechcroft at Rockstone : Three Girls and a Strict Aunt
Under the Storm : or, Steadfast's Charge
Nuttie's Father : A Girl Finds the Father She Never Knew
Stray Pearls : Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise
The Caged Lion : A King of Scots, Captive in England