The Chaplet of Pearls

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000578734
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Chaplet of Pearls
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mary Yonge, B. C. (n.d.). The Chaplet of Pearls. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s song.