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<DIV>It was a short-term memory problem. I have a 1st edn of <EM>The
Georgian Literary Scene</EM> (quote on pp. 392 –3) – so battered that I only
paid A$0.50 on 27/4/76 – it was published in 1935. However, in "Marionette
shows", his review of “The Waves” in 1931, he refers to “six characters”
(reprinted in MAJUMDAR, Robin, & Allen McLaurin).</DIV>
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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>Jeremy
Hawthorn via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:19 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Frank Swinnerton on The Waves</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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></P>
<P>Jeremy H<BR></P>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 05.10.2020 17:03, Harish Trivedi wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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
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