<div dir="ltr">Brenda:<div><br></div><div>This is a belated and, perhaps, not very helpful answer to your student's question on <span class="" id=":74g.1" tabindex="-1">Theophile</span> Gautier. The student wonders if Woolf had read Gautier's novels or any of his works. </div><div><br></div><div>As everyone knows, Woolf was a voracious reader. I can only tell you with assurance that if Woolf didn't know Gautier before 1917, she read <u>of</u> him in vivid detail in late 1917 in the <span class="" id=":74g.2" tabindex="-1">Goncourt</span> brothers' engaging journals. The <span class="" id=":74g.3" tabindex="-1">Goncourt</span> brothers met Gautier at the famous <span class="" id=":74g.4" tabindex="-1">Magny</span> dinners in Paris. In their journal they call Gautier "that stylist in a red waistcoat," "the sultan of the epithet," rotten with modernity, repeating lovingly "<i>The idea is born of the form,</i>" the phrase Flaubert pronounced to him that January 3, 1857 morning. The <span class="" id=":74g.5" tabindex="-1">Goncourts</span> spoke of Gautier's "galloping muse."</div><div><br></div><div>If Woolf hadn't read Gautier before, that may have propelled her to him. Sorry I know no more.</div><div><br></div><div>Barbara <span class="" id=":74g.6" tabindex="-1">Lounsberry</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:27 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>There is certainly something odd about the lighthouse in <em>TL</em>.
As well as the problem of the beam, the Godrevy lighthouse was never black and
white but always all white.</div>
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<div>CF. <em>JR</em> “<span>A
pale yellow light shot across the purple sea; and shut. The lighthouse was
lit.”</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-TOP:0cm;MARGIN-LEFT:0cm;MARGIN-RIGHT:0cm"><font face="Calibri">This seems more historically accurate than the lighthouse light in
<i>TL</i>: ‘there, sure enough, coming
regularly across the waves first two quick strokes and then one long steady
stroke, was the light of the Lighthouse. It had been lit’ (98). ‘The first
lighting apparatus for Godrevy [had] a four-wick lamp and a clockwork revolving
mechanism. [. . .] The light made a full revolution in four minutes, showing a
white flash every 10 seconds, visible at a distance given variably as 15, 16 or
17 miles.’ When it was converted to an unmanned operation in 1934, ‘the new
light was a faint glimmer in contrast to the bold flashing white beam which
first shone forth from Godrevy in 1859’ (<span>Thomas,
Charles, and Jessica Mann (2009), <i>Godrevy
Light</i>, Truro, Cornwall: Twelveheads Press,</span> 20, 28).</font></p>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="mhussey@verizon.net">Mark
Hussey</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 23, 2016 9:17 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="Brenda.R.Silver@dartmouth.edu">Brenda R. Silver</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] 2 questions</div></div></div>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">[posted
on behalf of Brenda Silver]<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">A
student in my Woolf course this term in Dublin sent me the following
question. Does anyone know anything about this? Please send replies
to me as well as to the list. Thanks!
Brenda<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">"A
quirky question if I may. I am a keen long distance sailor and was intrigued by
VW's light characteristic of the lighthouse as two short and one long.
This is the sequence for morse "U". In seafaring terms the flag "U" or the light
sequence "U" means "You are sailing into danger". Most off-shore oil/gas
platforms and wind turbines all flash Morse "U".<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">I
cannot think of any lighthouse in the UK with this sequence and so checked the
actual light sequence on the lighthouse in north Cornwall that VW visited in
the 1890's. It originally flashed once every 10 seconds and then in later
years had a red light attached to it. The lighthouse is now
disused.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">So,
it seems, possibly, that VW intentionally used two short and one long.Has there
been any scholarly debate on why she used that particular light
characteristic?"<br><br>**<br><br>Another question from a student in my Woolf
class this term. Again, if you could send your reply to me as well as the
list I'd appreciate it. Brenda<br><br>"The Irish writer whom I am
researching, Susanne Rouviere Day (1876-1964), in one of her autobiographical
novels published in 1914, refers to reading Gautier. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">In
one of the academic papers you gave us to read on "Orlando" the author refers to
Gautier in her introductory paragraph where she is reviewing/mentioning novels
of a similar genre to "Orlando", many of which had been banned by the censor.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">I
have got myself a copy of Gautier's "Mademoiselle de Maupin" published in 1835 .
. . <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Verdana","sans-serif";COLOR:black">I
have 2 questions. Had VW read Gautier's novel or any of of his other works which
presumably spell out his thoughts on beauty being loved independently of sex,
and for its own sake? Second question, Susanne R Day was heavily involved with
the suffragist movement in Ireland and London from 1909 onwards.Within that
suffragist/suffragette milieu would an author like Gautier have been topical or
required reading? "<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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