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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Julie Kane explores various aspects of Woolf's interest in Eastern religion and philosophy, including her connections with India, in ‘Varieties of Mystical Experience in the Writings of Virginia Woolf’.
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<div style="font-size:14px" name="x_messageBodySection">I wonder if one might follow the American Transcendentalists backwards to find Thoreau’s sources back to Europe, as he most definitely read the Gita and often, and then see if those European sources could
be traced forward to the Woolfs and their connections. The reason I think this might work is that Elizabeth Peabody’s bookstore at 15-16 West (Street? Avenue?) Boston, while it existed, was the main source for foreign-language books for most of the Transcendentalists.
I am not particularly interested in them, but the Peabody sisters fascinate me, as does Margaret Fuller. Of course, the tricky part here may be the long period of time between Elizabeth Peabody’s book buying and the Woolfs’ book buying. Cambridge might provide
the link, however, because I have this notion that German philosophy is at the root. I cannot quite place this idea, but have a strong feeling that it came from either the Peabody sisters’ biography or the Fuller biography I read, which I read in quick succession,
and which were written by same author, Megan Marshall. I hope this provides some clues or new avenues of inquiry.
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On Mar 1, 2018, 2:15 AM -0500, Harish Trivedi via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>, wrote:<br>
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S. An Idealist View of Life, Being the Hibbert Lectures for 1929. London: Allen & Unwin, 1932. LW—annotations.</span><br>
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Sitanath. Sankaracharya: His Life and Teachings. Trans. by Sita Nath Dutta. 3d ed. Calcutta: Society for the Resuscitation of Indian Literature, 1899.</span><br>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:large">I also looked for but did not find the following: </div>
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Ten Principal Upanishads Put into English by Shree<span> </span></span><em style="font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; color:rgb(106,106,106); font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:small; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Purohit</em><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84); font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:small; font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); float:none; display:inline"><span> </span>Swami
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<i>The Waves</i> may broadly remind some (mainly Indian?) readers of Indian scriptures, especially the Upanishads, I do not get the sense that VW had actually read any of them, to say nothing of such reading being reflected in her own writings. </div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:large">However, I do dimly recall finding in the Monks House Papers at the Sussex U Library (in 1972 or thereabouts) a fan letter to VW upon the publication of
<i>The Waves</i> saying that the novel reminded this reader of the upanishads, and as I recall, it wasn't an Indian correspondent who wrote that. In my view, such vague remembrances are no more than impressionist "mnemonic irrelevancies" in IA Richards' phrase. </div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:large">But if Ruth does turn up closer parallels between VW's works and the Indian scriptures -- and much of her previous work in many fields is full of her being able to substantiate
tenuous-seeming connections! -- that would open a new window of interpretation. </div>
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<div class="x_gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:large">Finally, could anyone please help me find the chapter and verse for an obiter dictum by VW that I have cherished for long which goes something like: "Both India and Italy exercise
the superfluous imagination." My supervisor Frank Bradbrook used to say that VW sent her characters off to India to get them out of the way for a while or to die. And of course there aren't too many of those either. </div>
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<div>No Bhagavad Gita there. The books on India are agricultural and political, so, as intriguing a suggestion as this is, I don't immediately see strong evidence for the speculation.</div>
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Where can I find a thoroughgoing report on Woolf's reading/library? I want to find out whether she had read the Gita. Given that it had been translated and circulated for so long before her time, and so many writers, including Eliot and Yeats, were immersed
in it, it seems likely that she did. But I'd like to be sure, and also to find out which translation she read if she did.<br>
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