<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jeannette Smyth <<a href="mailto:jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net">jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">October 14, 2014 10:33:21 AM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Stuart N. Clarke" <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf and British Fascism</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you. For those interested in the Bloomsbury/fascist constellation, I add here close ties between Barbara Hutchinson -- daughter of Clive Bell's long-term mistress -- and Barbara's fiance, then husband, Victor Rothschild -- and the young Diana.<div><br></div><div>Jeannette Smyth</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>See “Love in a Cold Climate”: Mrs D.: pp.171, 175-76 (Penguin, 1954).
Violet Trefusis is(?) Lady Montdore.</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net" href="mailto:jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net">Jeannette Smyth</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:11 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="ericadelsandro@gmail.com" href="mailto:ericadelsandro@gmail.com">Erica Delsandro</a> ; <a title="VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf and British
Fascism</div></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline">Thank
you. That game of the dinner party you'd like to have in heaven seems to have
been an actuality of the '20 and '30s in London, where they all intermingled.
Touched upon briefly in the email was queer society, in which the beautiful and
sharp-tongued Mitford sisters revelled, with Nancy at least, having one
long-term gay (male) fiance. The meshing with Bloomsbury would there have been
even fuller; I'm interested in the relation of the young Diana with
Strachey/Carrington.
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<div>Nancy was very apologetic about her fascist novel, Wigs on the Green, and
let Diana edit it. I believe she took out long passages on the Mosley character
(apologies for misspelling Mosley throughout).</div>
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<div>I have to agree with you that this wild mingling of the discourses between
the wars could not but have had a sharpening and stimulating effect on Woolf --
as it did on the similarly ill-educated, and much more cloistered, Mitford
sisters. I wonder if the fact none of them had been to school helped hip them to
the education available to them in the social company of others?</div>
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<div>I will pay attention to the question of Woolf reading Mitford. Watch this
space.</div>
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<div>Take care,</div>
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<div>Jeannette Smyth</div>
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<div>On Oct 14, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Erica Delsandro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div dir="ltr">Jeanette -- Thank you for your email! You hit on one of my
deep interests: the fact that although the 1930s is portrayed as marked by
distinct and divided political loyalties, the immediate postwar and the 1920s
were much more politically dynamic with figures now securely positioned as
anti-fascist, for example, praising Mosley, as you mentioned. I love the
constellations you drew out in your email. May I make one suggestion: if
you read Nancy's interwar novels (recently reprinted by Random House) you'll
find subtle references to several socialites and intellectuals of the
time. (And they are so hilarious!) In fact, Woolf is mentioned by
name in <i>Love in a Cold Clime </i>(or is it <i>Pursuit of Love</i>... one of
the two); she is heralded as the model of the female intellectual.
Personally, I am very interested if Woolf ever read Nancy Mitford. I
haven't been able to find any evidence but I also haven't looked terribly hard
(the letters and diaries and the library at Pullman). If you come across
anything along those lines, please let me know!
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<div>Thanks again for your email! It got my wheels turning this
morning!<br>
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<div>All best! -- EGD</div>
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<div>PS -- The death of Deborah truly marks an end of an age.</div>
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<div> </div>-- <br><i>Dr. Erica Gene
Delsandro<br><br></i></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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