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<DIV>For what it’s worth, there is a mention of the house in the short story
‘The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story’. In the edition that I have of
<EM>The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf edited by Susan Dick
</EM>which is a first American edition, printed by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and
copyrighted 1985, the name appears with no apostrophe on page 160, ‘All the
villagers were standing in a ring around the house handing buckets of water
which were filled from the well in Monks House kitchen’. The editorial
note also gives the name with no apostrophe. The house in the story is
situated in the village of Rodmell and the origin of the story is from <EM>The
Charleston Bulletin, </EM>the newspaper that Vanessa Bell’s children produced in
the 1920s. There are also other references that coincide with actual
people who lived in the village of Rodmell. I’m wondering if Monks House
without the apostrophe was taken from an original manuscript or typescript or
copy of <EM>The Charleston Bulletin </EM>or if it was an editorial choice on Ms.
Dick’s part?</DIV>
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<DIV>That story has always stuck in my head because Rodmell was used as a
location and the name Monks house is used as well. So I did a bit of
non-scholarly research this morning.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mark Scott</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Stuart
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Monks? Monk's?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>In order to impose consistency in the “Virginia Woolf Bulletin”, we have
gone for Monks. If there ever had been monks – which there weren’t – there
surely would have been more than one, and we know that Monks’ is definitely
wrong.</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with Mark about the gate. Notices, esp. those in caps, tend
towards dropping punctuation as much as possible.</DIV>
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<DIV>Take the Underground as an example: “As there is no such thing as an
‘official name’, it is impossible to be certain about the use of apostrophes,
hyphens, brackets and the like, especially where, as is sometimes the case, the
name of any particularly station at any particular time can appear differently
on the station building, platform nameboards, timetables, maps and
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Mark
Hussey via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 17, 2020 1:52 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=danell@danelljones.com>'Danell Jones'</A> ; <A
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Monks? Monk's?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>A
perennial question! Funnily enough, I just went through the ms of my biography
of Clive Bell (forthcoming April 2021) and put in the apostrophe throughout
because that is how it appears in a letter of Clive’s I quote. I have always
thought either was acceptable, and I think VW herself uses both. I was never
much swayed by the absence of the apostrophe on the gate as that seemed likely
to have been an aesthetic rather than orthographic
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<vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu> <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Danell Jones via Vwoolf<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:57
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style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB",serif'>So where are we
with the spelling of Woolf’s Sussex cottage these days? Monk’s? Monks’? Monks?
Does it matter? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB",serif'>I’m leaning toward
Monks because that’s how its spelled on the gate of the house, not to mention
Woolf’s own idiosyncratic disregard of apostrophes. . <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB",serif'>That said, I
believe she was not consistent about the spelling—to no one’s surprise, I’m
sure. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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