Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands
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Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1854), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with t...
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- LIFE OF JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESON:
- MISSIONARY BISHOP OF THE MELANESIAN ISLANDS By Charlotte Mary Yonge
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL, 1827-1838.
- CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD AT ETON. 1838—1845.
- CHAPTER III. UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT BALLIOL AND JOURNEYS ON THE CONTINENT.
- CHAPTER IV. FELLOWSHIP OF MERTON. 1852—1854.
- CHAPTER V. THE CURACY AT ALFINGTON. 1853-1855.
- CHAPTER VI. THE VOYAGE AND FIRST YEAR. 1855-1856.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MELANESIAN ISLES. 1856-1857.
- CHAPTER VIII. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE AND LIFU. 1857-1859.
- CHAPTER IX. MOTA AND ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE, KOHIMARAMA. 1859-1862.
- CHAPTER X. THE EPISCOPATE AT KOHIMARAMA. 1866.
- CHAPTER XI. ST. BARNABAS COLLEGE, NORFOLK ISLAND. 1867—1869.
- CHAPTER XII. THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870-1871.
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