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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The first instalment of Barnacle is come
Yours affectionately C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mr Craik I see that your ‘house’ appears in the list of subscribers to the Surgical Aid Society. Do you think one or more letters could be spared to me? A little child was sent from the Society for protecting Waifs and Strays with a lame foot paralysed after measles- to be boarded at a cottage here. She is now in the Orthopaedic hospital, but she requires a boot and irons, and the expense is ... continue reading
My dear Miss Dampier Do you think you and your sister could manage to come and spend an evening here while Gertrude Walter is staying with me? I do not ask you to dinner because she cannot go down to it and would have much more pleasure if you would drink tea with us – any evening except Saturday the 22nd or Monday or Tuesday the 24th and 25th would suit us, if you will choose ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Trebeck Thank you for your excellent letter, I hope you are going to circulate it and that it is not to be only diocesan
What a tower of defence we have lost in Lord Selborne
yours sincerely C M Yonge
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