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 Frere
You have chosen a very cold summer for your visit to England and I am afraid you must think you have come there in the winter by mistake. We have had some revolutions in the state of the Monthly Packet, a new partner at Mozley’s and a new printer, and my effort for some time past has been to get old material finished up. I have still so many verses on hand ... continue reading
My dear Miss Bourne
Thank you, I wish I saw my way, but I have been five weeks in Devonshire, and I cannot go forth again so soon, as there is a great deal on hand, and lee way to make up before another holiday We have to hunt for an Infant School mistress as our very excellent one marries the master and retires. It is good for him, but bad for us. ... continue reading