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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Could they be purple with cold? Or is the skin so translucent the veins are showing through?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Caroline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Danell Jones<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 13 May 2015 7:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Stuart N. Clarke'; vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#2E74B5">For what it’s worth, Thackeray describes Amelia’s eyelids as purple in
<i>Vanity Fair. </i>(Collier and Son, New York, 1917, page 334) and poet Arthur Symons uses it in
<i>Amoris Victima</i>, section (Mundi Victima section III, 1902) and <i>The jealousies of a country town. A marriage settlement<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#2E74B5">by Honoré de Balzac also uses it to M. Sauvager. Even Henry Rider Haggard has a character, Irene, with purple eyelids.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#2E74B5">I am thinking it was a convention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#2E74B5"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Californian FB","serif";color:#2E74B5">I love all these mysteries, Stuart! Thank you for sharing.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Towards the end of ch. VIII:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Shawled women carry babies with purple eyelids”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Because they are “shawled”, we know the women are poor. David Bradshaw tentatively suggests lupus. I have looked on the internet, and
both purple eyelids and lupus have quite complicated causes/symptoms, from the trivial to the serious, and so I feel are beyond me.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I have asked a doctor friend, who says the question is difficult! “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy">The short answer
is that I do not know any exact cause but can hazard a guess that it is a condition seen in debilitated children or children with cyanosis such as blue lips as seen in some chest and heart conditions such as congenital heart disease etc.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Why should poor babies have purple eyelids and, presumably, rich ones not? Diet?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Any answers gratefully received.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stuart</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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