Charlotte Yonge is one of the most influential and important of Victorian women writers; but study of her work has been handicapped by a tendency to patronise both her and her writing, by the vast number of her publications and by a shortage of information about her professional career. Scholars have had to depend mainly on the work of her first biographer, a loyal disciple, a situation which has long been felt to be unsatisfactory. We hope that this edition of her correspondence will provide for the first time a substantial foundation of facts for the study of her fiction, her historical and educational writing and her journalism, and help to illuminate her biography and also her significance in the cultural and religious history of the Victorian age.
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My dear Christabel
Here is a beginning of Mrs Lyndhurst. I am afraid she is too much in the Aunt Dora style. I think we might do without Sylvia I don’t see anything for her to do. Denys seems to me quite enough, so I send nothing about her, though if needful I could put her in afterwards. Denys may have a calf love for Rachel which may make a man of him. ... continue reading
My dear Glow worm,
Let us have the Redan then though I am a little puzzled about the greater proportion of Goslings having brothers in the army – if you counted Humble Bee as one[,] your Army List misled you for the Alfred Moberly there is only a cousin. I spent Saturday evening with her, and told her all your questions, and she shuddered at the notion of the Redan. However that is no reason against ... continue reading
Dear Madam, I am not aware whether “The Clever Woman” has been translated, but perhaps you will answer the enclosed yourself.
Dear Madam Yours faithfully Geo: Lillie Craik
... continue readingMy dear Miss Smith
I am much entertained by your Scarborough paper as I remember those Rivaulx terraces some 25 years ago, the only place where my sights coincide with yours. I only wish I saw more present prospect of room for it! You must be one of my oldest contributors. Did you not like Miss Sewell’s paper on family traditions
yours sincerely C M Yonge
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