Probably CY
's closest friend was Marianne Dyson
, an unmarried invalid twenty years her senior, to whom she habitually signed her letters as Your loving Slave.
qtd. in
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
Biographer Georgina Battiscombe believes that CY
's best novels are those of the years 1851-6, during which she was spending time with the MoberlyAnne Moberly
family.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Occupation
Charlotte Yonge
She began leading her Sunday School class at the age of seven, and was eventually made a fully-fledged teacher.
Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Her students recalled her as imaginative and dedicated.
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
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She held the belief that teaching...
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October 1886: St Hugh's College for women was founded at...
Building item
October 1886
St Hugh's College
for women was founded at Oxford University; its first principal was Anne Moberly
.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Kemp, Betty. “The Early History of St. Hugh’s College”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 15-47.
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