Title: Charlotte Yonge Letter

Date/Date Range :   1878

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains one letter from Charlotte M. Yonge to an unidentified "Madam" in 1878. It requests that the recipient send an advertisement and stamps to the publisher.

Call number: MS-2456

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of the UT Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Charlotte Yonge Letter, MS-2456. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Sometimes called the "novelist of the Oxford Movement," Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was born in Otterbourne, England, devoted to the Church of England, and influenced by John Keble, a neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. She began writing in 1848, and published about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1854), provided the funding for the schooner Southern Cross, on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with the profits from later novels. Yonge was also editor, for nearly forty years, of a magazine for young ladies, the Monthly Packet. Among the best known of her works are The Heir of Redclyffe, Heartsease, and The Daisy Chain. She also wrote Cameos from English History, and Lives of Bishop Patteson and Hannah More. (Some of her works are available through the UT Libraries.)

This collection contains one letter from Charlotte M. Yonge to an unidentified "Madam" in 1878. It requests that the recipient send an advertisement and stamps to the publisher.

• Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901
• Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence.