The Long Vacation: A Novel of the May Family
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Quiller Orchardson and William Powell Frith. The May family grown up: a summer holiday at the seaside, an actress with a past, a stepson nobody knows what to do with, and a parish that must be kept going. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village, taught Sunday school there for seventy-one years, and gave the profits of her bestselling novel to fit out a missionary schooner. She wrote the middle-class family as a moral institution, and knew it from the inside. Fifty-eight plates of marine painting, from Beechey's storm-tossed HMS Fawn to Forging the Anchor, keep the salt air of that seaside holiday in view throughout.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Quiller Orchardson and William Powell Frith. The May family grown up: a summer holiday at the seaside, an actress with a past, a stepson nobody knows what to do with, and a parish that must be kept going. Yonge live...
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Charlotte M. Yonge (1823–1901) was an English novelist and editor based in Otterbourne, Hampshire. She published over 150 works of fiction, including The Heir of Redclyffe, and edited the Anglican monthly magazine The Monthly Packet from 1851 to 1893.
Charlotte M. Yonge (1823–1901) was an English novelist and editor based in Otterbourne, Hampshire. She published over 150 works of fiction, including The Heir of Redclyffe, and edited the Anglican monthly magazine The Monthly Packet from 1851 to 1893.
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