ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Charlotte Mary Yonge's fictional portrayal of missionary men in The Daisy Chain and its sequel The Trial, and the dynamics of family life in these tales that can result in the production of such heroic men. The success of The Heir of Redclyffe gave Yonge the possibility of distributing financial largesse; the choice of a donation towards the new mission-ship filled her with excitement. In an exultant letter to Marianne Dyson about Bishop Selwyn's visit to Winchester in June 1854, she describes the unobtrusive handing over of her gift to Bishop Selwyn by the two-year-old Maggie Moberly, Yonge herself remaining in the background. The fictional Guy Morville in The Heir of Redclyffe is an exemplar of knightly virtue, a Sintram transposed into the nineteenth century, Yonge perceived the real Bishops Selwyn and Patteson to be the living embodiments of Durer's Knight ready to do battle with Death and Satan.
