<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Elisa,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I looked at several sites about makeup in the 1920s and 1930s and all three confirmed that women did use blue eye shadow, such as <a href="http://www.return2style.de/swingstyle/makeup/30amimup.html" class="">http://www.return2style.de/swingstyle/makeup/30amimup.html</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/womens-1920s-makeup/" class="">http://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/womens-1920s-makeup/</a> says "<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Magazine articles from 1926 on mention purple and blue pencils used as eye shadow. There was also brown eye shadow.</span><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class="">”</font></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I am interested in the cornflower allusion, as that comes up in a figure in my book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was younger but yet a contemporary of Woolf, and though German, of the same social class. He used the cornflower to describe his (gay) friendship with Eberhard Bethge, likening that kind of friendship—which he celebrated as a realm of freedom-- to the wild cornflowers that would grow between rows of corn or wheat. The corn symbolized the accepted, rigid social institutions, like marriage, and the cornflowers a beautiful, free arena. I don’t know if cornflowers would have any of the same overtones for Woolf as for Bonhoeffer. Her "cornflower" sounds very rigid!</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The cornflowers growing between planted crops revealed yet another sign of the alterity between the pre-war era and today, when pesticides have more or less eradicated would have been the common sight of cornflowers and other weeds growing in the fields between the rows of crops. I think often—or did when I was writing—about how different, in so many ways, the actual world they saw was compared to our own. </span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If you find out more, I would be interested. </span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#404040" face="Open Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Diane</span></font></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2018, at 3:22 PM, Elisa Sparks <<a href="mailto:sparks@clemson.edu" class="">sparks@clemson.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear all-</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I am writing currently writing about cornflowers (aka Bachelor Buttons) in Woolf and I have found a passage which makes no sense to me. On July 21, 1934, Virginia and Leonard went to Cambridge to visit an old friend, Barbara Hutchison, recently married to Victor Rothschild and very pregnant.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>After lunch Woolf describes Barbara as sitting “very upright, painted like a cornflower” (D4 228).<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I have no idea what this can possibly mean. Anybody else have any ideas? Could it be a misreading of her handwriting? Were women wearing vivid blue eye shadow yet?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Fascinated to hear what you all come up with--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Elisa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><br class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Vwoolf mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>