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 Smith,
I am half afraid of plunging into a tour because I have got so many on hand, that Eastern journal is indeed printed to the end, but I cannot get it in, and the Journal in Holland lingers on, and I have some Italian letters that I grieve not to have got in, so on the whole I think I had better decline yours, though if I had not been so ‘furred ... continue reading
The family of the Prince Consort has no surname being in fact too old- Von Sachs is its only distinction of the kind
your truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mr Bullock, Here is Salisbury. I am sorry I could find no more to say about it, the cathedral having been all built at once, and the Bishops not having been memorable except the last four. Burnet I could not put in! The sunshine on the Altar on the 15th of August is quite true. I have seen it twice
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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