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To Margaret Anne Macmillan
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
April 26th 1880

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Miss Macmillan

If you will send me a short account of the Working Women’s College I will gladly put it in.1 Perhaps it will be best to do so when everything is settled. I wonder how much the women read the papers, I suppose they may be more alive to public matters than their sisters in the country, but even the men at our village reading room care much less for papers than for books.

The Goslings have turned into Spiders, almost as wonderful a transformation as that of barnacles into barnacle geese!2

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1For discussion of the various colleges which operated under this name see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/working_womens_college.htm
2Margaret Macmillan (b.1857), third child and elder daughter of CMY's publisher Alexander Macmillan, had been a member of the Gosling Society.

Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2705/to-margaret-macmillan

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