[Vwoolf] missionary string bags

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Ah, thanks Stuart, that fits much better than the “Taylors and Edgeworths” quotation. The replacement of “revives” with “refreshes” suggests that Moyes is quoting from memory. Could she even be running the two quotations together?

The “pretty hat” quotation is rather cheering!

Here’s a vintage photograph of a string bag, although I doubt it is a missionary one.

J

Professor Emeritus
Department of Language and Literature
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway

From: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 11:25 AM
To: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>; Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] missionary string bags

Since the novel predates the 5-vol. diary, just to reassure: the quote *does* appear in “A Writer’s Diary”.

From: Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] missionary string bags

“A pretty hat in a teashop - how fashion revives the eye!” D5, 8 March 1941 (I don’t think I remember string bags. ) Stuart From: Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 9: 59 AM To: vwoolf@ lists. osu. edu Subject: [Vwoolf] missionary
“A pretty hat in a teashop - how fashion revives the eye!”
D5, 8 March 1941

(I don’t think I remember string bags.)

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