<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60412">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 women though, not even George Eliot.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60414"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60416" dir="ltr">Sarah M. Hall<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60419" dir="ltr">VWSGB<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60438"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60470"></span></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60444" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60443" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60442" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60441" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60440" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60447" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Anne Fernald <fernald@fordham.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" <vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 3:15<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60475"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60474" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vwoolf] the four great Victorians?<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60479" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv2533263621"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60478" 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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60477">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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60482"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424186823849_60481" 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="yiv2533263621gmail_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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