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 Bath Brick
Skelton was poet laureat to Henry VIII & Rector of Diss in Norfolk. I am afraid he was not a very respectable person & I do not know his poems. Your ‘Tact’ is the chosen one this time
Yours very sincerely
Arachne
... continue readingMy dear Miss Barter,
I should think such a school as Mr Holland proposes would be a very good and useful thing. I do not see how I can help about it though I know so few people in London and I do not think there is anything for me to write about Mr Holland further than to wish him success, so I will ask you to do so for me.
I saw Alice Moberly last ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Bliss,
I did not think when last I saw you that the accompanying book would have come so soon, so I said nothing about it, but if you would be so kind as to take charge of it, I should be very much obliged as it is a parcel that will not well travel by post. The letters I think I shall have to send by post
yours sincerely
C M Yonge
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