Charlotte M. Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901) was an English novelist who lived all her life in the Hampshire village of Otterbourne, under the influence of John Keble, her parish priest and a leader of the Oxford Movement. The Heir of Redclyffe in 1853 was one of the most admired novels of its decade, and she wrote some 160 books in all: family chronicles like The Daisy Chain, historical tales such as The Little Duke and The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, and the fairy-tale retelling Love and Life. She edited The Monthly Packet, a magazine for Anglican girls, for nearly forty years and gave most of her earnings to church missions.