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 Sir I am much obliged for the draft for £300 which I received this morning as well as for the book which accompanied it.
I am glad to hear that the Lances of Lynwood have begun to go off so fast
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mary I am glad you have been keeping the wedding day with Charlotte. I am afraid that the hotel must spoil sitting out of doors except in front of the house. I am writing now in the garden while Blanche Webber, who is here to recover from the remains of the influenza is lying down in her own room. She had it at Easter and does not quite get over the remains, ... continue reading
Dear Mr Craik
Many thanks for your letter and cheque. I am glad to see your writing again, and that the first dreariness of return has been faced.
I am glad the cheap edition is doing so well, it is capitally got up and bound, and I regret nothing but the Daisy Chain illustrations and those to the Trial. Those to the intermediate edition were much better.
I have had some correspondence about a story of the historical ... continue reading
Dear Madam
Thank you most heartily for sending me this most laborious and excellent piece of work. I hope to keep it with my volumes and make it useful
yours sincerely C M Yonge
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