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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Google search on “owl shrieked in the ivy” turns up an article called “Upton Court” in
<i>The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction</i> , volume 29 (which I find elsewhere dates from 1837), that includes the following sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“Really, when the wind swept through the overgrown espaliers of that neglected but luxuriant wilderness, the terraced garden; when the screech-owl shrieked from the ivy that clustered up one side
of the walls, ‘and rats and mice, and such small deer’ were playing inside the wainscot, it would have formed as pretty a locality for a supernatural adventure as ever decayed hunting-lodge in the recesses of the Hartz, or ruined fortress on the castled Rhine.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The source is given as a sketch by Miss Mitford called “Country Lodgings.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Woolf referred to the popularity of Mary Russell Mitford on various occasions (not positively, as I recall). Whether Mitford is also quoting I don’t know, but it sounds that way (though there is
a marked quotation in that sentence).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Caroline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Cernat via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 7 July 2020 6:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu; Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] really obscure Elizabethan reference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The "White Devil" reference makes a lot of sense to me, since the play is also one of the intertextual references in "The Waste Land" and there seems to have been some tension between Woolf and T. S. Eliot over
some of the lines Eliot took from Webster ("the dog who's friend to man" was in Webster's original "the wolf who's foe to man"). For a set of interesting fictional speculations about the Webster passage and the reasons for replacing "wolf" with "dog", see
Norah Vincent's Woolf-themed biofiction <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Adeline.
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hope this is not too off-topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Laura Cernat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+cernat.laura=kuleuven.be@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf-bounces+cernat.laura=kuleuven.be@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke
via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] really obscure Elizabethan reference</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">“‘mongst women howling” is from “The White Devil” (5.3.36–7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(Day 112)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:34 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> [Vwoolf] really obscure Elizabethan
reference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear all--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I am researching ivy in Virginia Woolf and have discovered a pattern of references to owls in the ivy. I have not been able to find any literary origins for this association which appears no les
than six times in Woolf's writing. Particularly curious is this allusion in her 1925 essay "Notes on an Elizabethan Play":
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> and we scarcely recognise any likeness between the knight who imported timber and died of pneumonia at Muswell Hill and the
Armenian Duke who fell like a Roman on his sword while the <span style="background:aqua">
owl</span> shrieked in the <span style="background:lime">ivy</span> and the Duchess gave birth to a still-born babe ‘mongst women howling (E4 67)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Does anyone have any idea what minor Elizabethan dramatist Woolf is citing here? I am at an utter loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Elisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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