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 Cousin, You know why I write to you on this day. The Communion of Saints becomes ever a more and more real thing to us as holy and saintly servants of God pass beyond the veil, as also we learn to know and love more and more our dear fellow-labourers and fellow-pilgrims still among us in the flesh.
Such a day as this brings, thanks be to God, many calm, peaceful memories with it. Of ... continue reading
My dear Lady Glasgow That is a beautiful testimony from the Scotsman to the great work at Sta. Cruz, Bishop Cecil Wilson is keeping it up, and now it is under British protection his work will be the less hindered. I believe the Church to be built in memory of Bp John Selwyn is to be in the island of Florida, where there is a considerable number of scholars. He says that everywhere the teaching of ... continue reading
My dear Maggie
I am extremely disappointed not to be able to come in today, when I had so fully reckoned on doing so, even for months past. All the more because I believe that Edith and I are your only remaining sponsors. But no doubt there are more prevailing prayers offered by those out of our sight. I have still the Daisy Cross that was a memorial of your Baptism, and called forth (I believe) ... continue reading
At the Hall is a beautiful picture of King Charles the martyr, a full-length, and with the beautiful forehead we always see him drawn with.
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