"It was at , and then at , that Georgina's literary career took wing. In 1943 her Charlotte Mary Yonge: the Story of an Uneventful Life was published. 's reputation as a writer was then at its nadir, and Georgina's book provoked a savage and contemptuous review by Mrs , but it was greeted with joy by a wide, though secret band of fans throughout the country, and led to a revival in Charlotte Yonge studies in university English literature departments, and to the foundation, a few years later, of the Charlotte Mary Yonge Society, an elite group of writers such as , and ."
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Georgina Battiscombe
(née Esther Georgina Harwood; 21 November 1905 – 26 February 2006) was a British biographer, focused on the . Her biography of John Keble was awarded the 1963 in Biography. She was elected in 1964 a Fellow of the .
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