Show CHARLOTTE YONGES YONGE'S WEEPING HEROINE Miss 1 Charlotte M. M Yonge whose death closed a literary career of amazing fertility fertility fertility fer fer- fer- fer will principally be remembered by byThe byThe byThe The Heir of ot a a Vie Vic Victorian Vic Vic- torian novel seldom read now At one onetime onetime onetime time however the whole feminine population population population pop pop- of the United Kingdom was I mingling its tears with those of ot Amy whom a Q contemporary novelist might I Justly have called a damp moist and unpleasant lant sort of heroine Some I ten years ago a reviewer who was hell holi at the s seaside elected to occupy his vacation reckoning up the number of Amys Amy's tears and arrived at the sum of or fits of weeping Allowing half halt a gill for tor each weep it becomes obvious that this queen of ot mid-century mid heroines must have shed In round numbers nine nine- ty-five ty quarts of tears teals in the course of her three volumes' volumes career It is computed computed computed com com- however that Susan Warners Warner's Ellen Montgomery in The Wide Vide World exceeded this record as the American heroines heroine's emotions made up In violence of hydraulic pressure what they lacked In relative frequency frequency- Freemans Freeman's Journal |