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 Miss Butler ‘Likes and Dislikes’ are beginning at last you see, and here is the first chapter of them, looking very inviting.
We have had great enjoyment in a visit from your cousin Elizabeth, I only wish her back was stronger. Are you meditating any travels this summer, the Packet wonders in rather an interested mood. By the by, if you have any idea, I should be glad to know what sort ... continue reading
Dear Madam
I am much obliged for the loan of these two books. I have the Queens of England but not the Queens of Scotland, and the little book about Northamptonshire told me just what I wanted
With many thanks Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Christabel Here is the September Barnacle – the binder has really made it so, though it ought to be the Midsummer one. I suppose that great MS ought to go round with it as I suppose no one would have patience to copy it out in the right size It was very stupid and this thin Barnacle would be much the better for it. Will you put in a note to that effect when ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Trebeck Thank you for your excellent letter, I hope you are going to circulate it and that it is not to be only diocesan
What a tower of defence we have lost in Lord Selborne
yours sincerely C M Yonge
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