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 Compton Would you be so kind as to answer this lady, as you understand the Reading Union much better than I do
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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I have just heard to my consternation that there is a book called A Quest of Ulysses, a novel published a year or two ago.
Is it too late to change the name to A Modern Telemachus?
I have I hope got upon the scent of the original French narrative, so I must keep the preface waiting till I find whether I can get it.
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This is a charming beginning. I shall be delighted to have it next Christmas and if possible will put the chapters in together, so as to have all in one vol. With many thanks
C M Yonge
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