Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte M. Yonge

Description

Charlotte M. Yonge, the most influential novelist of the High Church Victorian home, set an old England in love and responsibility against a century that felt both far away and close: her eighteenth-century costume allowed her to test eternal questions about obligation and feeling. In Love and Life a family in straitened circumstances leans on its most capable daughter; an old romance, a new claimant, and the heavy furniture of filial duty crowd the house, and love must fight its way forward without doubting what is owed.

The novel is quieter than the great sensation works and far more certain of its moral compass — precisely its charm: an old story, an old world, and a novelist who took both seriously.

Why readers still come back to it

• A thoughtful historical romance on the oldest conflict: obligation versus desire.
• Yonge’s moral earnestness delivering all the grip of melodrama.
• A period setting handled with real feeling for family life of the old century.

About this DodaBooks edition

Set so the quiet virtues of the book can breathe: clean type, a helpful table of contents, and unhurried spacing that rewards patient reading. The old world arrives in the file the moment your order is complete.