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 Mrs Swinton Thank you once more for the Waterloo letters which I have read with the greatest pleasure. They bring it close to us, just as did Lord Seaton and my father talking it over. I rather wonder to see the Prince of Orange such a favourite but probably he was very different to young girls from what he was to Lord Seaton who was his ‘bear leader’ for some time
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Smith
I am terribly bound up with present matters of necessity but I will hunt up Delicia and see what I can do with her, though I know May, June & July are pretty full But I will put her in type, and then she will be sure of getting in soon (after Magazine calculation of soon)
yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mr Craik
Many thanks for this payment, which considering that I had £400 before ought indeed to satisfy me.
I wonder when Clay means to go on with the Scripture readings
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss [name erased]
I am so sorry, but I am going to London on Monday for the G F S affairs, and I do not come home till Saturday. If you are going out on an expedition could you not take me on your way back? I come home on the 27th, and on any day but the 29th shall be at home. At least I have promised to take my niece in ... continue reading