Beechcroft at Rockstone
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
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Charlotte M. Yonge's Beechcroft at Rockstone opens with a telegram in the Mohun sisters' parlour. Jane Mohun reads it: Lily, Jasper, accident, come. Her delicate sister Adeline stipulates conditions from her chair. Jane packs her ever-ready bag and catches the 11.20 train.
Sir Jasper's accident disperses his children among relations, and Beechcroft takes its share of the household. Gillian's help, the Halfpenny mother, and little Primrose arrive in Jane's planning. Rockstone is the family's seaside place, where invalids and schoolgirls must be fitted into a small house. Yonge's dispersion becomes an education: duty distributed among the willing and the reluctant. The novel belongs to her Mohun family chronicle. Its pleasures are small, exact, and moral, the management of a household standing in for the government of a soul.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 692 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |