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<DIV>JR is often so lacking in information/context that one is tempted to fill
it out on very shaky evidence. Where does Florinda live? We don’t
know, yet Winifred Holtby could write in her book on VW in 1932 that “<SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>Florinda
was, though in a Chelseaesque and amateurish way, a prostitute” (129).
This is presumably because there is a brief ref. to Chelsea: “<SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>Now
Florinda wept, and spent the day wandering the streets; stood at Chelsea
watching the river swim past ...”</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>A few paras later, “<SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>when
Florinda got home that night she first washed her head ...”. In her
Harcourt edn, Vara Neverow annotates: “<SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>Florinda
would not have had running water in her lodgings; most likely she washed herself
with water from a basin and pitcher</SPAN>” (244).</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>My
father was born in Pimlico in 1898: “The [poor] mothers of Pimlico gave suck to
their young” (Mrs. D). After the war, his and his first wife’s families
lived in Chelsea. On 25/12/29 (when he married), he was living at 45
Cadogan St, the flat above the shop on the corner:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>I find from Zoopla that it is (now) a 3-bed flat, last sold in April 2011
for almost £2m, and (now) estimated at £3m. I’d give my eye-teeth to live
there – but not £3m.</DIV>
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<DIV>When my father lived at no. 45, he rented it, there was no bathroom and
only an outside lav. He was delighted to get away from Chelsea at the
beginning of 1937, and never wanted to move back.</DIV>
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<DIV>So, if Florinda really did live in Chelsea, we can assume Vara is
right.</DIV>
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<DIV>We are a long way from the Hilberys’ residence in “Night and Day”.</DIV>
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