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<p>You remember right. I tracked down the comment.</p>
<p>"She claimed to be presenting not Mrs Brown, but Mrs Brownness.
That sounds splendid. But in order to discover the Mrs Brownness
Virginia Woolf was forced to write solely of ruminative or
introspective persons, and when she had carried her exploration to
the four minds in <i>The Waves</i> she had reached as far as that
particular method would take her. There were four poetic
somethings; but they all thought alike." (Frank Swinnerton, <i>The
Georgian Literary Scene</i>, Everyman edition, revised 1951, p.
281)</p>
<p>This reminds me of the old humorous seaside postcard that has a
picture of a rather formidable wife looking at the card a weighing
machine has given to her very meek looking husband. "It says you
are handsome, muscular and decisive. It's got your weight wrong
too." Had he even read the novel?<br>
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<p>Jeremy H<br>
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Frank Swinnerton in <i>The Georgian Literary Scene</i> count
the total number of characters in the novel as four -- if I
remember right. They were all too <i>vague </i>for him,
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