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	Podcast:		The Essay
	Episode:		The Heir of Redclyffe
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:13:43
	Publish Date:		2023-02-03 14:36:00
	Description:		Soldiers fighting in the Crimean lapped up this story, and it also influenced the young William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who read it at Oxford. The Heir of Redclyffe, published in 1853, reflects the mid-Victorian trend for medievalism and resurgence of High Church Anglicanism, combining gothic melodrama with sharply observed social realism, sprightly dialogue and wry humour. Although Charlotte M Yonge came to be associated mainly with domestic realism, in her long career (1823–1901) she worked across a wide range of genres, writing biographies, histories, children's books, and novels from historical epics to long-running family sagas. In her bicentenary year, New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore argues that now is the time to rediscover this brilliant and neglected woman writer. Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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