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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Orlando is a poet, and much of the talk about “great Victorian writers” in the ‘20s would have been about poetry. Tennyson and Browning
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I like the point about
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah M. Hall<br>
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<b>To:</b> Anne Fernald; vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] the four great Victorians?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I'm not convinced she had four particular Victorian literary figures in mind; could it be an ironic reference to Lytton Strachey's Eminent
Victorians, i.e. Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon? Although of course they're not writers. So readers can take their pick. Dickens would probably have to be one of the four; otherwise it's a free-for-all; probably no
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Anne Fernald <<a href="mailto:fernald@fordham.edu">fernald@fordham.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 3:15<br>
<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60475">Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] the four great Victorians?</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">A facebook friend asks whom Orlando refers to when mentioning the four great writers of the Victorian age. I realize I don't know, nor do I really understand
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">As a reference to four novelists (she's just had volumes and volumes delivered) (e.g. Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, and....who? Hardy)? Or as a joke about
the way we name an era's greats with certainty? Or....? It seems almost certainly NOT to be the four women of A Room of One's Own (Austen, Brontë, Brontë, Eliot)....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">"Accustomed to the little literatures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, Orlando was appalled
by the consequences of her order. For, of course, to the Victorians themselves Victorian literature meant not merely four great names separate and distinct but four great names sunk and embedded in a mass of Alexander Smiths, Dixons, Blacks, Milmans, Buckles,
Taines, Paynes, Tuppers, Jamesons--all vocal, clamorous, prominent, and requiring as much attention as anybody else. Orlando's reverence for print had a tough job set before it but drawing her chair to the window to get the benefit of what light might filter
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/9781107028784" target="_blank"><b><i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>, now available from Cambridge UP</b></a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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