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 Miss Manning, I am sorry not to have been able sooner to answer you and tell you how much I like your friend’s Stone cutter, whom I shall most gladly have in the Monthly Packet, though I am afraid it can hardly be before the end of the year, as though in the enlarged size of the Monthly Packet I can generally get a short self-contained story in every month, I am engaged a good ... continue reading
My dear Caroline, If you are at leisure this next/ week will you come and spend a day with us, when we can take a walk in the Cranbury gardens, as the house is still uninhabitable, and I do not think they can come home for a week or so. Any day but Monday will suit us equally well, and we hope you will come before one o’clock. It is so long since I have ... continue reading
Dear Madam I shall be out all day tomorrow, and from 11 o’clock both Friday and Saturday, and I go away on Saturday so I hardly like to propose your taking the trouble of calling so early
yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Palmer I am ashamed of not having thanked you sooner for the statement C M S which is a great help to me, being very clear though of course very sad. I think Mr Gorst’s book must be soon coming, and then I shall dash into my subject - I was going to say like Captain Dodd at the pirate, for I have just been reading that wonderful chapter of Hard Cash. Have ... continue reading