"Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses" by Charlotte M. Yonge Charlotte Mary Yonge was an English novelist, who wrote in the service of the church and aimed to write books that transmitted a moral and hopeful message. In this book, she does so by tackling the Yorks and the Plantagenets, the cousins that, due to their own struggles for power, triggered a war that would last many years and split Britain.