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.