<div dir="ltr"><div>The voice, in part, at least, could be the voice of <i>The Times</i>. Such an interpretation would give additional resonance to "imprinting" and "Papers accumulated." In "John Delane" (1908), Woolf wrote: "to-morrow a voice speaks with authority in Court and market and Council Chamber. But whose voice is it? It is not the voice of Mr. Delane, the urbane gentleman who rides along Fleet Street on his cob, nor is it the voice of Dr Woodham, the learned Fellow of Jesus. It has the authority of Government and the sting of independence; Downing Street trembles at it and the people of England give ear to it, for such is the voice of <i>The Times." <br><br></i></div>Virginia Woolf had a deep and sharply critical interest in <i>The Times</i>. Her ideas about <i>The Times</i> owe much to Leslie Stephen's boisterous attack<i> </i>on <i>The Times</i> in <i>The Times on the American War </i>(1865). That work, in turn, as Stephen openly acknowledged, was informed by Kinglake's attack on <i>The Times</i> in <i>The Invasion of the Crimea</i> (1863). Woolf was well aware of Kinglake's book and Kinglake's criticism of <i>The Times</i>. In <i>Between the Acts</i>, Isa notices "Kinglake's <i>Crimea"</i> just before she reads <i>The Times</i>' story about the rape.<i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">‘<span>A
<u>voice</u> kept remarking that Prime Ministers and Viceroys spoke in the
Reichstag; entered Lahore; said that the Emperor travelled; in Milan they
rioted; said there were rumours in Vienna; said that the Ambassador at
Constantinople had audience with the Sultan; the fleet was at Gibraltar. The
<u>voice</u> continued, imprinting on the faces of the clerks in Whitehall
(Timothy Durrant was one of them) something of its own inexorable gravity, as
they listened, deciphered, wrote down. Papers accumulated . . .
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;TEXT-INDENT:14.2pt" align="justify"><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" face="Calibri">‘The <u>voice</u> spoke plainly in the
square quiet room with heavy tables, where one elderly man made notes on the
margin of type-written sheets, his silver-topped umbrella leaning against the
bookcase. . . .</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;TEXT-INDENT:14.2pt" align="justify"><font face="Calibri"><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">‘“The Kaiser,” the far-away <u>voice</u> remarked in
Whitehall, “received me in audience.”</font></span><font size="3"><span>’
(near end of ch. xiii)</span></font></font></p>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3">What voice? Sir Edward
Grey’s? Asquith’s? The telephone? Harold Nicolson’s father’s? Morse code? W<span>ireless
telegraphy? </span>Or is it just messages pouring in?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3">Some metaphorical uses of “voice(s)” elsewhere in
<em>JR</em>:</font></div>
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<div><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" face="Calibri">‘The worn <u>voices</u> of clocks repeated
the fact of the hour all night long.’ (end of ch. viii)</font></span></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><span><font size="3">‘<span>Yet
even in this light the legends on the tombstones could be read, brief
<u>voices</u> saying, “I am Bertha Ruck,” “I am Tom Gage.”</span> . . .
</font></span><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">the tablet set up in 1780 to the Squire of the parish
who relieved the poor, and believed in God—so the measured <u>voice</u> goes on
down the marble scroll, as though it could impose itself upon time and the open
air.</font></span><span><font size="3">’ (end of ch. xi)</font></span></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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