If times differ, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is curiously like, and curiously unlike, our own sayings and doings. The feelings of a retired officer of the nineteenth century expecting the return of his daughters from the first gaiety of the youngest darling, are probably not dissimilar to those of Major Delavie, in the earlier half of the seventeen hundreds, as he sat in the deep bay window of his bed-room;
If times differ, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former times, we are by turns startled by what is c...
"The Daisy Chain" (1856) by Charlotte M. Yonge is a popular and beloved British Victorian novel chronicling the lives, loves, and aspirations of the many delightful members of a middle-class, provincial family, the Mays.
Charlotte M. Yonge was a widely read and appreciated author with quintessentially Victorian sensibilities. Not as well known in our time as her literary contemporaries Dickens and Trollope, she may perhaps be the most delightful secret to be rediscovered by a whole new generation of readers.
This edition includes a new introduction by acclaimed author Diana Birchall.
"The Daisy Chain" (1856) by Charlotte M. Yonge is a popular and beloved British Victorian novel chronicling the lives, loves, and aspirations of the m...
"The Daisy Chain" (1856) by Charlotte M. Yonge is a popular and beloved British Victorian novel chronicling the lives, loves, and aspirations of the many delightful members of a middle-class, provincial family, the Mays.
Charlotte M. Yonge was a widely read and appreciated author with quintessentially Victorian sensibilities. Not as well known in our time as her literary contemporaries Dickens and Trollope, she may perhaps be the most delightful secret to be rediscovered by a whole new generation of readers.
This edition includes a new introduction by acclaimed author Diana Birchall.
"The Daisy Chain" (1856) by Charlotte M. Yonge is a popular and beloved British Victorian novel chronicling the lives, loves, and aspirations of the m...