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Elderfield Otterbourne
Feb 19th 1889

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 171-2

Dear Mr Craik

Here is the Reputed Changeling. It really is a much better story than Beechcroft at Rockstone which was chiefly written to run on with the Monthly Packet and satisfy people insatiable of continuations, so that as a young people’s tale it suffers from being treated as a novel.

Has it gone to Tauchnitz?

What a curious book Reuben Sachs is! Is Amy Levy a genuine Jew- ?1

She seems to have stripped off all the illusions, not to say realities! about the race

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (London, Macmillan 1888), a novel about upper middle-class Jewish life in London.

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/2901/to-george-lillie-craik-76

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