Charlotte Yonge's spiritual priorities provided her with a distinctive interpretation of ‘home’ and ‘settlement’, wherever these may be in the world, plus a longer time-span whereby to evaluate diverse communities. This chapter focuses on two of her novels: New Ground (1868), a story about a missionary cleric and his family in Natal, and, more briefly, My Young Alcides (1875), where Australian colonists return to Britain and criticize the society which they rediscover. Useful contemporary comparisons to these books are provided by some works of Mary Anne Barker Broome (usually known as Lady Barker): Station Life in New Zealand (1870), Station Amusements in New Zealand (1874) and A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (1877). Barker's judgements reflect widespread contemporary ideas about the nature of transferrable British culture, which could be rolled out as new turf across the fresh fields of foreign lands with little respect for the traditions of the existing peoples of her various destinations. Yonge's viewpoint concentrated rather on divine destinations and is encapsulated by some lines she uses to preface chapter 2 of New Ground.