[Vwoolf] Quote source?

Wed Jul 13 14:51:15 EDT 2022

10 Feb
What a deal of cold business doth a man mis-spend the better part of life in! in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in a dark corner. (Ben Jonson, “Timber or Discoveries”)

19 Feb
Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of man is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. (Apocrypha, “Wisdom of Solomon”)

7 March
“He is an old bore, even the grave yawns for him.” (Beerbohm Tree, quoted in “Max” by David Cecil)

10 March
For I must tell you that in private life I have no patience at all with lunatics. (Freud, Letter to Pfister)

30 March
There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise. (Landor, “Rousseau and Malherbes”)

20 April
“By God, God himself is not so busy that a homicidal maniac with only ten dollars in the world can hitchhike a hundred miles and buy a gun for ten dollars then hitchhike another hundred and shoot another man with it.”
“Don’t that maybe depend on who God wants shot this time?” (Faulkner, “The Mansion”)

23 May
What female heart can gold despise?
What Cat’s averse to fish? (Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”)

26 May
Many of the books which now crowd the world, may be justly suspected to be written for the sake of some invisible order of human beings, for surely they are of no use to any of the corporeal inhabitants in the world. (Johnson, Review of “Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil”) 

11 June
Women are not by any means to blame when they reject the rules of life which have been introduced into the world, seeing that it is the men who made them without their consent. (Montaigne, “Essays”)

10 Dec
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. (Disraeli, “Coningsby”)

That’s quite enough!
Stuart

From: Neverow, Vara S. 
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:36 PM
To: Jean Mills ; Sarah M. Hall ; Stuart N. Clarke 
Cc: Woolf list 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Quote source?

Dear Stuart,

Would you be willing to share a few snippets from Leonard's "A Calendar of Consolation"? I doubt that many Woolfians have a copy of that particular volume (but I suspect that you do have it and have it relatively handy).

Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women's and Gender Studies Program
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
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Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:49 AM
To: Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com>; Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Woolf list <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Quote source? 

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: 
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!ybrlxn8jibCVXzL07SgiPMlCeGSzqzx3OtXE6puzHMkQlqwgy5uLfnTsYVfwctkvJHn-B3T7n4m6FfpNXfnjIwbbQIuWSInsuQ$ )

  Sarah

  Sarah M. Hall
  Executive Council, Virginia Woolf Society of GB
  Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk
  Facebook: @VWSGB
  Twitter: @VirginiaWoolfGB
  Instagram: @virginiawoolfsociety

  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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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)
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Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (The Ohio State University Press, 2014)

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