<div dir="ltr">It might be worth noting that Oscar Wilde had explicitly linked the Bradshaw guide with naming in the 4-act version of The Importance of Being Earnest, a play in which naming is of course thematized throughout:<div><br></div><div>Jack:  Station! Who on earth is talking about a station?  I merely want to find out my father's Christian name. </div><div><br></div><div>Chasuble:  But you have handed me a Bradshaw.  Of 1869, I observe.  A book of considerable antiquarian interest:  but not in any way bearing on the question of the names usually conferred on Generals at baptism.      </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Michael F. Davis, Ph.D.<div>Associate Professor<br>Associate Chair<br>Department  of English</div><div>Le Moyne College</div><div>Syracuse, NY 13214</div><div>USA<br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Andre Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grenpipiens@gmail.com" target="_blank">grenpipiens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would think Roy is right.  Almost certainly Virginia used the name because of George Bradshaw of Bradshaw guide fame.  Interesting that she carried the exact name over to Mrs. Dalloway.  Anne Fernald connects Mrs. Dalloway's William Bradshaw  to the Bradshaw lecture of the Royal College of Physicians.  George Bradshaw's reputation for detail and reliability would also play into Sir William.   <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradshaw%27s_Guide" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradshaw%27s_Guide</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Peter Stansky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stansky@stanford.edu" target="_blank">stansky@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Sorry typo. f should read r in Bradshaw.  Peter<br>
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> On 19 Jul 2015, at 15:34, Peter Stansky <<a href="mailto:stansky@stanford.edu" target="_blank">stansky@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I believe Isherwood's full name was Christopher William Bfadshaw-Isherwood.  Peter<br>
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>> On 19 Jul 2015, at 14:53, Roy Johnson <<a href="mailto:roy@mantex.co.uk" target="_blank">roy@mantex.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Bradshaw - Trains - Go figure :-)<br>
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>> The narrator of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” is called William Bradshaw.<br>
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