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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Dear Madam I am very sorry I cannot help you to Ben Sylvester. I have not even one of my own except in a bound up volume, and the copyright is not mine. But if you enquired for it direct from Innes they might find a last copy, or be stirred to a reprint.
yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingIt is coming, but there were so many that we are obliged to send them to the post by instalments C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Madam I am much obliged by your kindness in sending Mr Nobb’s letter - It is however the Melanesian mission, not the Pitcairners, for which I am collector and it is better not to mix the two arrangements. Bishop Patteson’s sisters sent out what is really worth sending to him, but in general money is more useful than goods, and people have been sending such useless things lately that I wished to check them.
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