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 Cousin Arthur Charlotte F Yonge tells me that you are anxious to know what I think of your daughter’s book. Of course I looked it up at once in the Swedish history which, equally of course, was too small to give all the details, though there was quite enough to see that she had full authority for all she said.
The first scene is wonderful, it reminds me nothing so much as that where the ... continue reading
Dear Mr Craik
They have only sent me the first 19 columns of the French primer, which I had [illegible] and which only want a little correction of the [illegible]. What I want is the latter half which I know was once set up, but which has not been lengthened, as this earlier part has been
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Lady Frederick I am afraid I cannot give you more than a week, and that the 6th must be the last possible day. I believe I am going to look over the MSS. with Mrs. Sumner and send them off on the 1st, but we can add your report at the end. I hope you are really recovered from the influenza. People are having it at Winchester, but rather slightly.
I always ... continue reading
My dear Miss Butler
It is very kind of you and Mrs Butler but I believe Miss Mackenzie is likely to come to me immediately after Lownie’s visit, and as there have been some difficulties about her coming before I could not put it off again.
This is a hurried day so I must only write my thanks
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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