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 Miss Gatty
‘A bit of Green’ was only in the number preceding ‘the Blackbird’s Nest’- July 1861. I had been on the like quest for the sake of the few words I have said in a conversation on books in the August number, I should have done so in the July one only that it was another persons conversation into which [it] would not fit
I did not write to you for what can I ... continue reading
Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send copies of each of her works to
Sister Elizabeth St Mary’s Home Wantage
Also one copy of the Heir of Redclyffe for herself
... continue readingMy dear Mr Wither We go on much in the same way, down one day and up another and as it is the same disease as Sir Tom Coulthard had, it will probably linger in the same manner. Today is a cheerful one, and she has had the Holy Communion, for which Henry comes to her after a late Celebration.
Tomorrow, Raby is to come out and see her while I have to be in Winchester ... continue reading
My Lord Bishop In answer to your appeal I send £5 from myself /10 from a friend to Messrs Coutts. I write because I see you wish to be informed of what is paid in for your intended buildings
I remain respectfully C M Yonge
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