Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press, 1965.
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Friends, Associates | Marghanita Laski | ML
was a friend of a number of other women writers (besides her fellow Charlotte Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
), notably Margaret Kennedy
(whom her husband published) and Betty Miller
. |
Leisure and Society | Marghanita Laski | ML
co-founded the Charlotte M. Yonge Society
, along with friends and fellow writers and Yonge
enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins
, Georgina Battiscombe
, and Lettice Cooper
, among others. Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press, 1965. 11, 13 |
Literary responses | Diana Athill | The Saturday Review pronounced this the most absorbing and original essay in autobiography to have come my way in the last two decades. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 3215 (11 October 1963): 803 |
Literary responses | Dora Greenwell | During her lifetime, DG
maintained a loyal and consistent following. William Michael Rossetti
said of her that she produced some work both refined and of genuine feeling to which her appearance and manner corresponded. Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981. 89 |
Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | Reviewing the Austen biography for the Times Literary Supplement, Georgina Battiscombe
called it a scholarly and immensely readable account of Jane Austen's life, while also noting that despite Laski's efforts, Austen remained an elusive... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen
's nephew James Austen-Leigh
compared it to the work of Austen and Scott
... |
Author summary | Charlotte Yonge | CY
was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She... |
Publishing | Charlotte Yonge | This was reprinted in 1965 and again with an introduction by Georgina Battiscombe
in 1985. |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | A predominantly biographical approach to her poetry dominated until near the close of the twentieth century. Following Mackenzie Bell
's study (which stressed her religious aspect) and William
's brief selective memoir, biographies of CR |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | Felix Underwood, a clergyman's son, keeps his family together by working after their parents die. (His creator recorded her composition of his own death, in his maturity, as a gruelling morning's work.) Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. 14 |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | EMD
contributed an introduction to Georgina Battiscombe
's biography Charlotte Mary Yonge
: The Story of an Uneventful Life. British Book News. British Council. (1943): 931 OCLC WorldCat. |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | Jointly with biographer and writer Georgina Battiscombe
, ML
edited and contributed to a volume of essays for the Charlotte M. Yonge Society
: A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Battiscombe published a successful first... |
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