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 soon combined serious work in history; and many novels, often in historical settings, as well as a long series of historical essays, appeared in the ‘Monthly Packet.’ Some among the eight series of her ‘Cameos from English History’ were collected respectively in 1868, 1871, 1876, 1879, 1883, 1887, 1890, 1896, and brought English history from the time of Rollo down to the end of the Stuarts. She provided serial lessons in history for younger students in ‘Aunt Charlotte's Stories’ of Bible, Greek, Roman, English, French, and German history, which came out between 1873 and 1878. To her interest in missions, which never diminished, she bore witness in ‘Pioneers and Founders’ (1871), and in a full life of Bishop Patteson in 1873.

Miss Yonge's literary work and religious worship formed her life. She taught Scripture daily in the village school, and attended service morning and evening in Otterbourne Church. She lived and died untroubled by religious doubts and ignored books of sceptical tendency. Workmen's institutes she condemned in one of her stories because the geological lectures given there imperilled religion. She only once travelled out of England, in 1869, when she visited Guizot and his daughter Madame de Witt, at Val Richer, near Lisieux in Normandy. Besides her kinsfolk, her dearest and lifelong friends were the members of the family of George Moberly [q. v.], headmaster of Winchester until 1866, and subsequently bishop of Salisbury; and in later days she became intimate with Miss Wordsworth, the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and with some among the members of a little circle of young women which she had formed as early as 1859 for purposes of self-cultivation. This circle included Miss Christabel Coleridge, Miss Peard, and, for a short time, Mrs. Humphry Ward.

In 1854 her father had died, and in 1858, when her brother married, she and her mother moved from the larger house, which was his property, to a smaller home in the village of Elderfield. The death of her mother in 1868 and of her brother in 1892 deprived her of her nearest relatives. She lived much alone. Always very shy, she paid few visits and seldom called upon the villagers. But she overcame this timidity sufficiently to entertain occasional guests and to become a member of the diocesan council at Winchester. On her seventieth birthday, in 1893, subscribers to the ‘Monthly Packet’ presented her with 200l., which she spent upon a lych-gate for the church at Otterbourne, and in 1899 a subscription was raised at Winchester High School to found in her honour a scholarship at Oxford or Cambridge. In her last and weakest story, ‘Modern Broods’ (1900), she tried to mirror the newer generation, with which she felt herself to be out of sympathy. Early in 1901 she contracted pleurisy, and died on 24 March. She was buried in Otterbourne churchyard at the foot of the memorial cross to Keble.

The many editions of Miss Yonge's historical tales, as well as of ‘The Heir of Redclyffe’ and ‘The Daisy Chain,’ testify to her permanence as a schoolroom classic. She published 160 separate books. Besides those works cited, mention may be made of: 1. ‘Kings of England: a History for Young Children,’ 1848. 2. ‘Landmarks of History, Ancient, Medieval and Modern,’ 3 pts. 1852–3–7. 3.‘History of Christian Names,’ 2 vols. 1863. 4. ‘The Book of Golden Deeds’ (‘Golden Treasury’ series), 1864. 5. ‘Eighteen Centuries of Beginnings of Church History,’ 2 vols. 1876. 6. ‘History of France’ (in E. A. Freeman's ‘Historical Course’), 1879. 7. ‘Hannah More’ (‘Eminent Women’ series), 1888. Miss Yonge also edited numerous translations from the French.

A portrait of Miss Yonge at the age of 20, by George Richmond, is in the possession of her niece, Miss Helen Yonge, at Eastleigh.

 YORKE, ALBERT EDWARD PHILIP HENRY, sixth (1867–1904), under-secretary of state for war, the only son of Charles Philip, fifth earl, by his wife Lady Sophia Wellesley, daughter of the first Earl Cowley, was born on 14 March 1867. The Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII, was his godfather. Educated at Eton, he served as hon. attaché to the British embassy at Vienna from 1886 to 1891. In the following year he became a member of the London Stock Exchange, and, in 1897, a partner in the firm of Basil Montgomery & Co. In the same year he succeeded his father in the earldom. On