[Vwoolf] "Good Housekeeping" wasn't racist or imperialist, Virginia!

[Jillian Clare]

Thankyou everyone.

I’m sorting thorough old diaries trying to reduce clutter. I’d written this on her birthday in 1990; it’s from a Diary entry dated September 4, 1927:
“I have never forgotten …. My vision of a fin rising on a wide blank sea. No biographer could possibly guess this important fact about my life in the late summer of 1936: yet biographers pretend they know people.”
Critics and journalists think they do too. Keep up the good work everyone
Kind regards
Jillian


On 26 Jan 2023, at 08:31, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:


I am afraid I have been a long time answering your letter with the cheque for £90 from Good Housekeeping. I am sorry they wouldnt rise to guineas, but I’m sure you did their [sic] best to make them, and in these times I suppose one cant complain. 
I am afraid I have been a long time answering your letter with the cheque for £90 from Good Housekeeping.
I am sorry they wouldnt rise to guineas, but I’m sure you did their [sic] best to make them, and in these times I suppose one cant complain. But what bad policy it is – being stingy about shillings!
(from an unpublished letter from VW)

Guineas were (obsolete) ‘coins minted from the proceeds of African slavery ... the reference is to black Africa ... to race and the history of slavery on which Britain’s wealth ... was built. ... the guinea is symbolic of the imperialist power that the English aristocracy had traditionally wielded’ (Jane Marcus in her edn of ‘Three Guineas’ (Harvest, 2006) pp. xliii, 224.


Stuart
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