Published by J. W. Parker and Sons in 1857,
Dynevor Terracecan be grouped with other Yonge novels such as
The Daisy Chain(1856) and
The Young Stepmother(serialised 1856-60), written in the years immediately following her 1853 best-seller
The Heir of Redclyffe.Like
The Heir, it is a stand-alone novel, although two of the main characters make fleeting cameo appearances in later volumes of the linked family chronicles for which Yonge is widely known. It has never attracted enthusiastic appraisal, with the conservative periodical
John Bull’s reviewer noting that he was “perhaps… rather disappointed” ( 9 May 1857, 299) although Yonge herself said of the hero Louis Fitzjocelyn that “I think I have always loved him more than Guy [hero of
The Heir]” (Coleridge, 1903, 197). As the…
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Citation: Courtney, Julia. "Dynevor Terrrace". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 February 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5460, accessed 24 November 2024.]