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<DIV>“Massingham was so little impressed by Virginia Woolf’s ‘Night and Day’
that he wrote derisively of the number of times the characters in that book had
tea.* He paid the price for his derision, of course, when ‘The Nation’ was
merged with ‘The New Statesman’ [actually the ‘Athenaeum’, in 1921]; but the
fatal words had been printed. Therefore I fear it must be said that the
great Liberal editors had lost pace with the literary times.”</DIV>
<DIV>(SWINNERTON, Frank, "Figures in the Foreground: Literary Reminiscences
1917-40", Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1963, p. 109)</DIV>
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<DIV>*”Nation”, 29 Nov 1919, p.295 – partly reprinted as one of the ‘adverts’ in
the back of the first UK edn of “Jacob’s Room”.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=harish.trivedi@gmail.com>Harish Trivedi</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 13, 2020 4:52 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke</A>
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Frank Swinnerton on The
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<DIV>But why "short-term"? Did he recover from it after 1935? Or was that
meltdown his final dictum?
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<DIV>I loved the joke about the weighing machine ticket. Exactly my feelings
very often, both recto and verso! <BR><BR>
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<DIV class=gmail_attr dir=ltr>On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 20:14 Stuart N. Clarke via
Vwoolf, <<A>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu rel=noreferrer>Jeremy Hawthorn
via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:19 PM</DIV>
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<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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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, obviously, and tended to merge into each other.
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