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.
CY
received from her close friend Marianne Dyson
some notes for a story which Dyson had been trying unsuccessfully to get written: this story became The Heir of Redclyffe.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Textual Production
Charlotte Yonge
With Marianne DysonCY
wrote teaching materials for use with village schoolchildren.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.