A hard old woman rules a family from a wheelchair by the simple method of never dying — and her niece narrates. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village and taught Sunday school there for seventy-one years; she wrote domestic tyranny better than anyone of her generation because she watched it at close range for eighty years.
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Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2
The Chaplet of Pearls
Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
The Heir of Redclyffe
The Lances of Lynwood
Henrietta's Wish : Or, Domineering
My Young Alcides : A Faded Photograph
The Long Vacation
The Clever Woman of the Family
The Young Step-Mother : Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations (Annotated) : Enriched Edition. A Victorian Family Saga of Anglican Duty, Sisterly Responsibility, and Moral Coming of Age
