[Vwoolf] Quote source?

Wed Jul 13 19:44:34 EDT 2022

Truly consoling - at least to me, David

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> On Jul 13, 2022, at 7:34 PM, Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>  I’m all for feminist uplift; it’s the lying so have a problem with! Thx for these posts. Jean
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>>> On Jul 13, 2022, at 2:51 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> 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”)
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>> 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”)
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>> 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)
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>> 30 March
>> There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise. (Landor, “Rousseau and Malherbes”)
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>> 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”)
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>> 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”)
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>> 10 Dec
>> Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. (Disraeli, “Coningsby”)
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>> That’s quite enough!
>> Stuart
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>> 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?
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>> Dear Stuart,
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>> 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
>> New Haven, CT 06515
>> 203-392-6717
>> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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>> I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.  
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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?
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>> 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).
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>> 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:
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>> 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.”
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>> From “The Years”: “The bugles on her dress glittered in the candlelight.  Was that the nineteenth century? Martin wondered.  Was that all it was?”
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>> 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”
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>> The Soul Garden Pathway
>> The Empty Round Table
>> QuoteFancy
>> RelicsWorld
>> Curated Quotes
>> Gracious Quotes
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>> and, disappointingly, Huff Post. Nowhere scholarly or reputable that you would imagine actually checks their sources before publishing. Who has time for that?
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>> Another candidate for the Misquotations and Misattributions page, Stuart? (https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/resources/misquotations__;!!KGKeukY!2x4p0id_Bi_AzB7v2OK_5eeVUEjtSWvJ-0J6XDbdFl4rpDyTc-L_7HULZekwCkgQkU57JzoOE8VX4cIhzpb9EF3o5w$ )
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>> Sarah
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>> Sarah M. Hall
>> Executive Council, Virginia Woolf Society of GB
>> Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk
>> Facebook: @VWSGB
>> Twitter: @VirginiaWoolfGB
>> Instagram: @virginiawoolfsociety
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>> On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 07:25:39 BST, Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>> On Jul 8, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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."
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>> 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)
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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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