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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:#2E74B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:#2E74B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:#2E74B5'>I love all these mysteries, Stuart! Thank you for sharing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:#2E74B5'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #2<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Towards the end of ch. VIII:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><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 style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>I have asked a doctor friend, who says the question is difficult! “</span><span 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 style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><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 style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><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 style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Stuart</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>