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A Reputed Changeling; or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
Set in the 17th century, it explores themes of supernatural beliefs through the life of a boy named Peregrine Oakshott, who is believed by those around him to be a changeling, or an elf swapped for a human child.
"A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago" by C. M. Yonge is a historical novel. Set in the 17th century, it explores themes of supernatural beliefs through the life of a boy named Peregrine Oakshott, who is believed by those around him to be a changeling, or an elf swapped for a human child.
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“Dear Madam, think me not to blame; Invisible the fairy came. Your precious babe is hence conveyed, And in its place a changeling laid. Where are the father’s mouth and nose, The mother’s eyes as black as sloes? See here, a shocking awkward creature, That speaks a fool in every feature.”
“He is an ugly ill-favoured boy—just like Riquet à la Houppe.”
“That he is! Do you not know that he is a changeling?”
Such were the words of two little girls walking home from a school for young ladies kept, at the Cathedral city of Winchester, by two Frenchwomen of quality, refugees from the persecutions preluding the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and who enlivened the studies of their pupils with the Contes de Commère L’Oie.
The first speaker was Anne Jacobina Woodford, who had recently come with her mother, the widow of a brave naval officer, to live with her uncle, the Prebendary then in residence. The other was Lucy Archfield, daughter to a knight, whose home was a few miles from Portchester, Dr. Woodford’s parish on the southern coast of Hampshire.
Contents
- 01Preface
- 02Chapter I The Experiences Of Goody Madge
- 03Chapter II High Treason
- 04Chapter III The Fairy King
- 05Chapter IV Imp Or No Imp
- 06Chapter V Peregrine’s Home
- 07Chapter VI a Relapse
- 08Chapter VII The Envoy
- 09Chapter VIII The Return
- 10Chapter IX On His Travels
- 11Chapter X The Menagerie
- 12Chapter XI Proposals
- 13Chapter XII The One Hope
- 14Chapter XIII The Bonfire
- 15Chapter XIV Gathering Mouse-Ear
- 16Chapter XV News From Fareham
- 17Chapter XVI A Royal Nursery
- 18Chapter XVII Machinations
- 19Chapter XVIII Hallowmas Eve
- 20Chapter XIX The Daughter’s Secret
- 21Chapter XX The Flight
- 22Chapter XXI Exile
- 23Chapter XXII Revenants
- 24Chapter XXIII French Leave
- 25Chapter XXIV In The Moonlight
- 26Chapter XXV Tidings From The Iron Gates
- 27Chapter XXVI The Legend Of Penny Grim
- 28Chapter XXVII The Vault
- 29Chapter XXVIII The Disclosure
- 30Chapter XXIX The Assize Court
- 31Chapter XXX Sentence
- 32Chapter XXXI Elf-Land
- 33Chapter XXXII Seven Years
- 34Chapter XXXIII Black Gang Chine
- 35Chapter XXXIV Life For Life
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 239 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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