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 Mr Moor Mr Reynolds has just been here about Annie Norgate. I shall be most thankful to you for helping her, and shall gladly join in the £10.10 subscription for her
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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... continue readingMy dear Mary One knew only too well what it must come to, and that the wounds one knew so well were being opened. Poor Charlotte, one cannot help thinking of her above all though the heaviest loss is to the poor little Cordelia, next to her father, but a mother to a girl so young is an inexpressible loss.
‘The clouds return after the rain’ After all those for whom one grieves the most, ... continue reading
Dear Madam Your suggestions are very kind and I am much obliged for them, but with regard to proposing subjects for home lessons, these would bring ‘Mothers in Council’ into being a book read in the schoolroom, and this we decidedly wish to avoid, as there is much more liberty in writing counsels about children or young people if they are not supposed to read them.
Where are the leaflets against indulgence in sweets? I had not ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan, Miss Sewell is in want of a volume of Milmans Latin Christianity which the London Library does not send. She will write to you which it is and perhaps you could kindly cause it to be sent to her. I cant think what Clay meant by our delaying the proofs for we had never done so.
I have never had any of Heartsease to put the headings to the pages.
Yours sincerely C M ... continue reading