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 Mrs Johns, Thank you for your kind invitation but I never know how to get out early enough for a one o’clock luncheon. Helen’s lessons last me till half past eleven, and if I do not work from that time till two, I can get nothing done, and as I am going from home the week after next, I am more hurried than is convenient, so that I cannot well spare the morning hours. ... continue reading
I should be very glad of the establishment of the copy right system with America but I should like to have more information before joining the Company of Authors.
Yours truly C M Yonge
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I have another packet of sheets to thank you for today, and I can now thank you with the fuller perception of your kindness as I have been carefully going over the corrections, inking them in, and making others I am shocked now that I see more plainly my wonderful bits of carelessness. I cannot imagine how I came to leave them. I can hardly tell which are more useful your corrections or suggestions, ... continue reading