[Vwoolf] Septimus and promotion

[Danell Jones]

I have also read this as a promotion from the ranks to officer.  

 

Clerks were among the largest group of men who volunteered to fight. As more officers (typically men from military families and public schools) were killed, it became easier for middle class men and others  to be promoted. There were even a few cases in which black British soldiers were promoted, even though, officially, this was not permitted. Commissioned ranks—positions as officers—according to the King’s Regulations required “pure European parentage.”  Black Britons who rose to the ranks of officers including George Bemand, J.S Risien Russell, John Albert Gordon Smyth, and Walter Tull.

 

That said, if there are other ideas about this reference, I would love to hear them!

 

Danell

 

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Subject: [Vwoolf] Septimus and promotion

 

Hi all, I have a question and I do not want to risk making a 'howler' as VW put it.  When Rezia says that Septimus was promoted, does that mean promoted to officer status?

 

Does anyone know what promotion means in Brit army context?

 

I bet it is in Karen's book, which is of course in my office and I'm home.

 

Thanks, leslie

 

lhankins at cornellcollege.edu <mailto:lhankins at cornellcollege.edu> 


 

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Leslie Kathleen Hankins

Professor

Department of English & Creative Writing

 

"Moreover, however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction, & gradually we become impatient of their weakness & diffuseness, of their compromises & evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make for themselves, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity & truth of fiction."  

                                                         Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"

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