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 Mary I could hardly help writing a note last night before I went to bed, it seemed so long to have known about Harvey without saying a word. I do not know whether I mentioned that we were to spend Saturday in a shopping expedition to Southampton & so no chance of writing then, but so it was. You will quite understand how little I mean the words to apply to herself ... continue reading
Dear Sir Do you know what it is to make the worst blunders in that which one knows so well as hardly to think real recollection worth while. This is the only way in which I can understand my own blunder about that hymn upon Sennacherib, which is not only home made - by my mother - but I have always heard every Sunday for more than twenty years.
I will send the July No of the ... continue reading
Dear Mr Innes, I do not suppose the understanding was ever absolutely clear, I have certainly always paid over £20 to Miss Finlaison half in summer and half in winter, and I have, as you say had £40 in summer, and £50 in winter, but I an impression that I had £10 more for the Christmas number. Indeed I am quite sure that Mr Smith gave me £10 more for the subeditor, and that I made ... continue reading