<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">An absolutely fabulous book that speaks to all this is: "Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science - The Aesthetics of Astronomy," by Holly Henry. What a fascinating and enlightening read! Fun, too, as it reprints numerous magazine, newspaper, and advertising images from the era investigated.<div> From Woolf's August 1907 diary as quoted in the Henry book: <div>"Tonight we speculated upon the stars; fancied ourselves moored, one of an innumerable fleet; & saw the earth shrink to the size of a button, its rim over there where the lighthouse marks the sea. This shrinkage was the result of seeing the moon close at the end of a telescope, like a globe of frosted silver…"…</div><div><br></div><div><div> Laurie<br><div><div>On Jun 19, 2012, at 8:29 AM, ANNE E. FERNALD wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>Woolfians,<br>
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We know the novel is set on a Wednesday in June of 1923, toward the middle of the month.<br>
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June 21, 1923 was a Thursday.<br>
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There were no solar eclipses in June in 1923.<br>
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The other clue to the exact date would be the cricket scores, but David Bradshaw has shown that they are notional and do not correspond to the scores on a particular date.<br>
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There is no ClarissaDay as there is a Bloomsday.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Anne<br>
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<span><graycol.gif></span><font color="#424282">kllevenback---06/19/2012 09:17:18 AM---Dear Molly-- In Robin Lippincott's Mr. Dalloway, which I reviewed (along with a couple of</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">06/19/2012 09:17 AM</font><br>
<font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Vwoolf] Wednesday in June</font><br>
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<font size="5" face="Times">Dear Molly--</font><br>
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<font size="5" face="Times">In Robin Lippincott's </font><i><font size="5" face="Times">Mr. Dalloway</font></i><font size="5" face="Times">, which I reviewed (along with a couple of other Woolf-inspired novels) some years ago in the </font><i><font size="5" face="Times">Woolf Studies Annual, </font></i><font size="5" face="Times">it is a solar eclipse which is seen to be a clue to dating--and is at the center of the day in June the "novella" involves.</font><br>
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<font size="5" face="Times">As I recall, I rather liked the allusion, having been lucky enough to witness a solar eclipse myself. Clearly an eclipse is more special, the solstice being an annual occurrence.</font><br>
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<font size="5" face="Times">Hoping your summer is happy--</font><br>
<font size="5" face="Times">Karen</font><br>
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Subject:</font></b><font size="5" face="Times"> [Vwoolf] Wednesday in June<br>
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It has been my considered opinion that Mrs Dalloway takes place on the Summer Solstice which, according to Whitaker's Almanac, occurs on June 21 in 1923."Everything had come to a standstill." Other opinions? Molly<br>
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