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 Charles,
I think I can let you have a story called Burrs, about choir boys if you like to have it. It will be published as part of a volume called Langley Adventures about Christmas but you will have the start
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mr Craik
I think I had better glance over the Shells.
I have begun upon the flowers but I find there must be a great revolution there, as it is no use in these days to teach the old Linnean system. I can manage by transposition, but it will take some time to set it in order, and I think it had better come in time for the spring, as it starts with the flowers of ... continue reading
J.F.O. slept here last night to assist at the opening of Mr. Randall's church at Clifton, to which we have been this morning. The Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Moberly, preached most beautifully about the Shadow and the Image. Mr. Skinner is also here for it. . . Those who stayed for the luncheon are full of enthusiasm, and say it was most successful, and that the two Bishops spoke ... continue reading
Dear Mrs Molesworth
I think Felix can go into the December number as my Ulysses finishes in November, and there will be the space it leaves, before another begins I have tried to keep down the serials this year to leave more room for selfcontained articles but it is very difficult.
I will do my best to notice your books if I see them, but I cannot always mention a book as a matter of course because ... continue reading