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<DIV>Dear Mary Ellen</DIV>
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<DIV>It would seem likely that QB would have been quoting from a letter from
Madge which prompted Virginia to respond as follows:</DIV>
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<DIV>'I do enjoy flattery! I never seriously meant to deny myself the pleasure
of writing, however bad it be for the public morals!—As a matter of fact I am
vain enough to think it had better read me than more popular authors. "<FONT
color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT
color=#000000>Genius</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>" is not a word to be used
rashly; it gives me enormous pleasure, and something more than pleasure, that
you should find anything of that kind in me.'</DIV>
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<DIV>(<EM>Letters</EM> I, 1 Dec [1904])</DIV>
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<DIV>Stephen</DIV>
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<A title=mefoleyuk@gmail.com href="mailto:mefoleyuk@gmail.com">Mary Ellen
Foley</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 23, 2014 6:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Madge Vaughan "believed
in her genius"</DIV>
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<DIV>Quentin Bell says<BR><BR>>>><BR></DIV>Madge, who liked Virginia
and "believed in her genius," was nevertheless sensible
of...<BR><<<<BR><BR></DIV>That's in vol 1, page 92, of the 1972
2-vols-in-1 paperback from Harcourt/Harvest. But there's no footnote to
let us know where he got the phrase or who said/wrote it. The page has
two block quotations from Vanessa Bell's letters to Madge Vaughan, which have
proper citations in the end notes; I looked up those letters and the quoted
phrase isn't taken from them, unless I've got some kind of bizarre blind spot
and couldn't see it right in front of me.<BR><BR></DIV>Am I overlooking
something tremendously obvious here? Who's he quoting?<BR><BR></DIV>Mary
Ellen<BR><BR>M.E.Foley<BR><SPAN id=:2o0.3 tabIndex=-1>MEFoleyUK</SPAN>@<A
href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</A><BR><BR></DIV>
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