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 Mr Bullock, If you can wait a little while for St Maurice I will send him to you but I am very busy just now, and could not turn my mind to it immediately. I have Baring Gould and Alban Butler both also Fleury
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Miss Atkinson,
I sent on your Robin and I think we are grateful for it
yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Miss Christie, I think I must lend you my Fairy Bower. It was written, as you see, nearly sixty years ago, before the Oxford Movement had become a visible fact, by Mrs. Thomas Mozley, while her husband was vicar of Cholderton. She was Harriet Newman, and though the little book is quite in children's form, it was such as none but a Newman could write.
A little girl, Grace Leslie, goes with her widow ... continue reading
My dear Mrs White
Miss Barnett’s niece, Emma Butler, who is here tells me that her Aunt is intending to write an account of your Convalescent home, so that I suppose she is only waiting for time. If she should fail, I should be very happy to have the account from yourself – or perhaps you have settled it with her – I am afraid my vote for Earlswood is disposed of
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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