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 Arthur I shall put your corrections in, I always had I confess believed that Bombastes was in Hudibras, but I ought not to have done so, as I never read it.
As to the Rod being a Celtic word, I did not make away with that because I thought it was curious that the sound should suggest the same idea independently or perhaps by some lingering of the root in the old Italian dialects.
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My dear Mr Moor This is what Mrs Arnold says, and I should think the terms as fair as could be expected. She is not a very charming looking person, but her husband has been half over the world and will probably be entertaining --- I wish I could send this over to you today, but our man is laid up with a bad cold --- Anything more you like me to do, I will ... continue reading
My dear Mr Moor I am sorry to say that I had sent the £600 a year question away, but I think you may safely assume that the clergyman lives in the country, and has a house, and glebe - and that the three sons are of an age to be educated - I cannot get at the propounder of the question, or I would have asked her
With many thanks Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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