My dear Miss Ingelow

Your letter has just come to me here in the midst of the steep hills and narrow valleys of North Devon. I think I must have been 2 years old when I saw the baby in the blue shawl, as my birthday is in August, and we generally went into Devon in the autumn. I do not think I taught myself to read, as I was then an only child much looked ... continue reading

Sir I think the books I most enjoyed in early childhood were Miss Edgeworth’s series of Early Lessons, Frank, Rosamond and Harry and Lucy.

Mrs Whately’s Fairfax family Anna Ross - Miss Strickland’s Rival Crusoes

Also very early Scott’s Poems Tales of A Grandfather The Talisman Ivanhoe Robinson Crusoe Lamb’s Mrs Leicesters School Tales from Shakespeare

This is all I can recollect of really standard books, which I read when very young

Yours truly C M Yonge