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<DIV>This poster says it all (from Woolf’s pov).</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Sarah
M. Hall via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> ; <A
title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no>Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] bungalows and villas</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Woolf certainly meant it in the pejorative sense. I always think of her
hyperbolic description of Little Talland House in Firle:</DIV>
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<DIV>‘This is not a cottage, but a hideous suburban villa — I have to prepare
people for the shock.’ <BR></DIV>
<DIV>(Letter 582, 31 August 1911)</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr data-setdir="false">Actually the house is a perfectly acceptable
semi, but was obviously a lot newer in Woolf's time.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 12:22:24 GMT, Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf
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<P>Re the recent exchange about VW's view of bungalows. In <I>The Waves</I>
Neville says: "Alas! I could not ride about India in a sun helmet and return to
a bungalow." I used to assume that he meant "retire to a bungalow in England,"
but Woolf doubtless knew that the word is of Indian (Hindi) origin, so the
imagined bungalow is presumably in India not the home counties, and returned to
not on retirement but at close of day.<BR><BR>Another tricky dwelling term is
"villa," a word that seems largely to have dropped out of (Real) Estate jargon
in the UK, but that survives in many road names ("Riverside villas" etc etc).
Again in <I>The Waves</I>, Jinny says "Look – all the windows of the villas and
their white-tented curtains dance [. . .]. There are bowers and arbours in these
villa gardens and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders trimming roses." I
again used to think that these would be gardeners working for posh families: my
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary gives among other definitions: "a large
house in a town" for "villa." The old SOED also gives "country house or farm,
country mansion or residence . . . hence any residence of a superior type . . .
such as is occupied by a person of the middle class," but it adds: "also any
small better-class dwelling house, usu. one which is detached or semi-detached."
I take it that this is what Jinny sees: the men in shirt-sleeves are
middle-class owner-occupiers, not of large houses or country mansions, but of
small(ish) houses with gardens. Right?<BR></P><PRE class=ydp2e5366f2yiv3985932238moz-signature>--
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