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 Christabel Here is the September Barnacle – the binder has really made it so, though it ought to be the Midsummer one. I suppose that great MS ought to go round with it as I suppose no one would have patience to copy it out in the right size It was very stupid and this thin Barnacle would be much the better for it. Will you put in a note to that effect when ... continue reading
Dear Miss Yonge I quite hope to write to you about the Bethlehem this week. I have the duplicates, but have not got time to read them at a sitting as I meant.
Will you kindly send the Cawnpore notice to me. Mr Trevelyan has just been in. He was much gratified by your estimate of his book. For long your books and name have been familiar and dear in their family.
Yours ever faithfully A. Macmillan
... continue readingMy dear Christabel, I should have said that I think you must specify your stones, there are such a frightful number- Pray have opal and turquoise- One for its weird history, the other for its nature- but exclude all the stupid ones, like garnets &c or we shall be swamped - I shall send the parcel on Monday - Meantime I send you the grand Goslings acceptance - I think Fernseed must be her name - ... continue reading