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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Dear Mr Innes
Miss Robertson’s two papers Home Daughters and Power are quite safe, only there has not been room for them yet. Does she want them back?
I find I cannot get Plataea into the Christmas number, it must come in a regular one. I sent off the bill of fare for the Xmas no yesterday. The first story is Friday’s Child, which I think would afford the best illustration. The little boy listening to the ... continue reading
My dear Irene
Many thanks for your sister’s pretty little poem. I daresay it took great effect at your tea drinking. How much more beautiful Aytoun’s is than Tennyson’s and what a glorious day that was! I could see the bridal train rush by on the LSW, and hear the guns fired at Southampton. Our squire gave beef and beer to each family at home, and there was a grand bonfire on the hill
Thank you so ... continue reading
My dear Florence Thank you for your kind note; I am glad you are at St. Cross again. I will try to come and see you as soon as I can. My dear cousin Anne had not been strong for many years, but was quite in her usual health till forty-eight hours before the end. Then as she was going upstairs at night a dreadful attack in the head came on, just what several of the ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan I hope to send all but the three or four concluding chapters of my story, A Release or Caroline’s French Kindred tomorrow
I should very much like them to appear in St Nicholas, but the difficulty is that the really first part is in the Christmas Number of the Monthly Packet for 1893, and if this story appeared separately, I must rewrite the mise en scene, as I suppose the republication of Caroline’s ... continue reading