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 Lord Bishop, I had been thinking of writing to you, if I could not meet you for some time past and the being asked to send you this card gives an impulse. I wanted to ask you whether you published - or have any record of a sermon which you preached at Eton on the 31st of October 1841, when Bishop Selwyn was taking leave for the first time. I am doing my ... continue reading
My dear Julian The photographer finds our lights so very inconvenient that I am going to bring him down to House, & get the benefit of your dark chamber. I will come after luncheon - in about 3/4 of an hour
C M Yonge
... continue readingI have been entreated to send Dr. May to cure her [Ermine], but I think that would be past even his capacities!
There is no heart
breaking about him [the Colonel]; with Rachel, she had made up her mind to immolate her affections at the shrine of her asylum before she found out that she was in no danger. Now I believe in her.
... continue readingMy dear C C I confess that though I mourn over the Manes of the M P I am personally a little relieved, for I was considering what I could honestly personally undertake or allow my name to be used for, in relation first to Truth, secondly in public spirit to the Church and girlhood, and thirdly in justice to kind helpers and endeavours for a fresh start. Helen has been reading the early volumes ... continue reading