<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_2925" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3660">Certainly George Eliot or </span>perhaps Eliz Gaskell or Wilkie Collins?</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_2926"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3453"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3454"><i><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></i></div><div><i></i></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3452"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3451"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3450">Steve Posin </font></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3849"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">415-921-3649 h</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>415-596-8125 c</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><i></i></font> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424143221039_3850"><font face="Arial"><i><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></i></font> </div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, February 16, 2015 7:15 PM, Anne Fernald <fernald@fordham.edu> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3027677139"><div dir="ltr">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 the paragraph. How do you read this? <div><br></div><div>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)....<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica, Arial,;font-size:12px;line-height:15.3599996566772px;background-color:rgb(246,247,248);">"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 between the high houses of Mayfair, she tried to come to a conclusion." </span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="yiv3027677139gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/faculty/english_faculty/anne_fernald_28537.asp">Anne E. Fernald</a></span></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cambridge.org/9781107028784"><b><i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>, now available from Cambridge UP</b></a></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><br></font><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Director of Writing/Composition at Lincoln Center,</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Associate Professor of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/index.asp">English</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fordham.edu/womens_studies">Women's Studies</a></span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Fordham University</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">113 W 60th St.</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">New York NY 10023</span><br><font face="sans-serif"><br></font><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">212/636-7613</span><br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:fernald@fordham.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:fernald@fordham.edu" style="font-family:sans-serif;">fernald@fordham.edu</a><br><br></div><span></span></div></div></div>
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