[Vwoolf] Giles (ex names and nations)

[Shilo McGiff]

What of "Gilles" as a stock figure in French farce?
In any event, "little goat" gives this (somewhat) modern student of
pastoral...a frisson.

Happy Monday, All.

SRM


On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 8:58 AM Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
wrote:

> Sorry if I’ve overlooked a post, but… Giles Lytton Strachey
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> On Sunday, May 15, 2022, 12:12:37 PM EDT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> Giles is not very common in Woolf. It was a popular name in the medieval
> period (St Giles was the patron saint of “cripples”), and appropriately
> there’s a Giles Martyn in “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”. Giles
> sounds a posh name to me,
> Giles is not very common in Woolf.  It was a popular name in the medieval
> period (St Giles was the patron saint of “cripples”), and appropriately
> there’s a Giles Martyn in “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”.  Giles
> sounds a posh name to me, and indeed a distant cousin of Woolf’s was Sir
> Gyles Isham, Bt (see letter no. 2690), who nevertheless was an ACTOR:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyles_Isham__;!!KGKeukY!29ygSF2vrKsupppdaJi-BU5qwU7p5Zhyuxk0HY_PMXgViAklx7HpMUPdpNk_sxg4pBsxfryCzPajhyQOn8hW$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyles_Isham__;!!KGKeukY!2q9eNjnnq9Wq29f7uwXV7BpR0hHa9Ugyp4UbHmVmdFQzy7d6URIJK4QyBXyFumNoYXC_euI-5Yz0Xa3lIWidolLyIkB1JViURagalBTYIQ$>
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> Stuart
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> *From:* Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 15, 2022 10:00 AM
> *To:* VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] names and nations
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> Stuart’s exasperation reminds me of this passage from Joseph Heller’s
> Catch 22 – it deals with surnames rather than given names, but the emotions
> inspired are similar. Colonel Cathcart has realized how often the name
> Yossarian
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> Stuart’s exasperation reminds me of this passage from Joseph Heller’s *Catch
> 22* – it deals with surnames rather than given names, but the emotions
> inspired are similar. Colonel Cathcart has realized how often the name
> Yossarian is associated with events that dealt him metaphorical black eyes.
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> *Yossarian* - the very sight of the name made him shudder. There were so
> many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word
> *subversive* itself. It was like *seditious* and *insidious* too, and
> like *socialist*, *suspicious*, *fascist* and *Communist*. It was an
> odious, alien distasteful name, that just did not inspire confidence. It
> was not at all like such clean, crisp, honest American names as Cathcart,
> Peckem and Dreedle.
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> (Why does Heller give “Communist” a capital letter?)
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> One Woolf name I have often wondered about is Giles, in *Between the Acts*.
> What associations does that name have for readers - or did it have for
> Woolf?
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> Jeremy Hawthorn
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-- 
Shilo R. McGiff, PhD
The Woolf Salon Project
Ithaca, NY 14850
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