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 Miss Yonge Mr Maclear’s address is
Rev G. F. M. 24 Elgin Crescent Kensington Park Gardens[[footnote:1]
Many thanks for your kind [illegible] about the illustrations. I think on the whole it would be dangerous to employ an unpractised pencil. On some future occasion I shall be very glad indeed.
My people at home have been reading your cameos, and think they would make a nice book. I am inclined to think so too - in a cheap form
Yours ever ... continue reading
My dear Helen Mr. Brock brought me in both the telegrams and was very kind. Of course what all knew must be sooner or later could not be a great shock, but all my letters were going with accounts of his having borne the journey so well. It is better for mamma and all of you to have had no lingering, and no associations for the new house. I hope she is keeping ... continue reading
Many thanks for this beautiful paper which will beautifully finish off the year .... Your references are all so full and so clear that they make the papers all the more useful, and I always find myself glad when I have one to read with my class which is after all the best test.
... continue readingMy dear Sir Edward
I forgot about Lady Beatrix Graham to which I certainly contributed nothing but the preface. I did not even profess to edit it so it was quite gratuitously attributed to me. I ought to have remembered that is had been so.
I am not quite sure where your knowledge of the ornaments of the County hall stopped short. I went over it about Christmas and thought the effect most beautiful
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