Published by J. W. Parker and Sons in 1857, Dynevor Terrace can 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 …
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Citation: Courtney, Julia. "Dynevor Terrrace". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 February 2023 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5460, accessed 23 November 2024.]