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 Mr Macmillan
I must send you my warmest thanks for the very noble life which you have sent me, which I am sure must leave a deep impression on all who read it. I think the letter at p 262 is one that cannot be read without peculiar admiration and reverence - as so entirely the antidote of the spirit of self help.
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mary I am out in the drawing room again but no farther till the wind changes, and the cough departs, but Helen is coming to look after me on Monday, and Miss Finlaison has done so most kindly. By the by I never have had a headache all through so I don’t know how she came to [illegible] it- I hope Sydney is better - Augusta has begun to write letters ... continue reading
Dear Mr Innes, Votes coming straight to me, and votes going first to Miss Coleridge made a certain amount of confusion - and four for Rowling Manor dated Jany 30th, came in just at the end and carried it up to 14 votes while L’Epine Noble has twelve --- So I suppose it must be the prize one, though my own judgment would not have gone that way.
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My dear Lord Bishop
I shall be very grateful for permission to put in the Monthly Packet a copy of this excellent little paper -
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I think too there is a little awkwardness in the piece about hospitality I do not think it will induce people to exercise it
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. . . will not be encouraged by it
Yours respectfully C.M. Yonge
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