[Vwoolf] Quote source?
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 12 05:49:51 EDT 2022
I have been looking at the madey-uppy quotations and they tend towards (feminist) uplift, supposedly taken from Woolf’s essays and diaries. The list of web pages supplied by Sarah also suggests optimism. A bracing wave of reality is needed: “Oh yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am” (“The Death of the Moth”). See also Leonard’s “A Calendar of Consolation: A Comforting Thought for Every Day in the Year" (1967).
There is a lack of “quotations” from Woolf’s novels. I have a print-out to hand with these that I sent to the listserv almost 10 years ago, so here they are again:
>From almost any Woolf novel: “She turned from the china cabinet with a cup in her hand. The windows blazed. She was filled with rapture.”
>From “The Years”: “The bugles on her dress glittered in the candlelight. Was that the nineteenth century? Martin wondered. Was that all it was?”
About another unwelcome visitor: “. . . meretricious, cheap, hard, with ideas like a string of beads from Woolworths” (Diary).
Stuart
“What can’t be cured must be endured”
From: Jean Mills
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:18 PM
To: Sarah M. Hall
Cc: Stuart N. Clarke ; Woolf list
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Quote source?
Thanks, all! what I don't understand is why isn't what she actually wrote (for example, on solitude, in I dunno, say in AROO, enough?) sheesh, the truthiness of it all is frightening. Anyway, thanks for the course correction. The author, Heather Hansen, was grateful for the confirmation. -Jean
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:37 PM Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Found on web pages going by the 'poetic' names of:
The Soul Garden Pathway
The Empty Round Table
QuoteFancy
RelicsWorld
Curated Quotes
Gracious Quotes
and, disappointingly, Huff Post. Nowhere scholarly or reputable that you would imagine actually checks their sources before publishing. Who has time for that?
Another candidate for the Misquotations and Misattributions page, Stuart? (https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/resources/misquotations__;!!KGKeukY!1FD1_6oFpyyimbBGxWvW0_Ijmd1Tj_N8tDYwG9CJRo0a5SWYBjJi8xFw7Op9En2zCAEUm2h_w1rFeTgr4V0aSwhCzUFu3dHMuw$ )
Sarah
Sarah M. Hall
Executive Council, Virginia Woolf Society of GB
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On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 07:25:39 BST, Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
I think AROO in various quote-y thangs online, with names like libquote quotefancy azquotes … ufff awful! So it’s invented, yes? Thx all for the good intel which I will pass along. Jean Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Stuart
I think AROO in various quote-y thangs online, with names like libquote quotefancy azquotes … ufff awful! So it’s invented, yes? Thx all for the good intel which I will pass along. Jean
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 8, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
Nothing to do with Woolf, as far I can see. Where has it been attributed to Woolf? Stuart From: Jean Mills Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 8:31 PM To: Woolf list ; Stuart N. Clarke Subject:
Nothing to do with Woolf, as far I can see. Where has it been attributed to Woolf?
Stuart
From: Jean Mills
Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 8:31 PM
To: Woolf list ; Stuart N. Clarke
Subject: Quote source?
This query came from a friend doing research for a book on solitude: I've seen this quote widely attributed to her but cannot pinpoint the primary source: "In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."
Any help? I’m traveling at the moment and away from my books :( with thanks for any lead, Jean
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Selected Publications:
"Feminist Theory" in The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf, ed. by Anne Fernald, Oxford University Press, 2021.
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Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger by Jane Marcus; Edited and with an Introduction and Afterword by Jean Mills. Clemson University Press, Fall, 2020
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"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003__;!!KGKeukY!1FD1_6oFpyyimbBGxWvW0_Ijmd1Tj_N8tDYwG9CJRo0a5SWYBjJi8xFw7Op9En2zCAEUm2h_w1rFeTgr4V0aSwhCzUHWR2Nyjg$
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
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