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 Canon Warburton
Thank you for the sight of the papers. The plan is just what I have wished for so long- and those Occasional papers are excellent.
I wonder how young the people are whom the Elementary questions are supposed to reach. As I see in the report that only 9 sets of answers are come in, I am afraid they are not meant for children below Confirmation age, school room and school ... continue reading
Dearest Lizzie- Here am I writing to you out upon the lawn under the pleasant shade of the berberis. There ought to be a nightingale singing, for one lives at the corner, but he is a lazy bird, and year after year always is nearly silent after the first fortnight, though yesterday I not only heard but saw his fellow singing with all his might in a young oak, making his tail and wings quiver.
I had ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan I enclose a receipt with many thanks, and rejoicings that the books still continue to prosper. I should be finishing another Worthy today if I had not five young cousins spending the day with me, but at any rate old Curius Dentatus will come before the end of the week, I chose him as the representative of the old hardy uneducated peasant king that the first Romans were. Then comes Scipio for the ... continue reading
My dear Mr Moor Mr Reynolds has just been here about Annie Norgate. I shall be most thankful to you for helping her, and shall gladly join in the £10.10 subscription for her
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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