Charlotte M Yonge: the plots, the fashions, the judgements

That Stick by Charlotte M Yonge published 1892 This is a later work from Charlotte M Yonge, and not one of her better-known ones. I am reading as much as I can of her (no-one can read all of them, she wrote a phenomenal number of works) for a project coming this autumn, involving The Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship – Victorian novelist - More to follow on that subject. I have done several posts on her on the blog, she is frequently mentioned, and I did a post on her place in the world: The Interesting Case of Charlotte M Yonge Most recently I mentioned this book in my post on Dower Houses in literature: Do you even know what a Dower House is? - Because it features one. I said then The oddly-named That Stick has a complicated family, where an outsider unexpectedly inherits a title (similar to the plot of Georgette Heyer’s Unknown Ajax, which it does not otherwise resemble – except for the lesson that people should not judge the heir before they meet him). The new heir, Frank, is ‘That…