<div dir="ltr">Then there is this passage from Lawrence's <i>The Trespasser</i>, which Woolf read while on her honeymoon in Spain:
<p id="gmail-id01478">"The streets were like polished gun-metal glistened over with gold. The
taxi-cabs, the wild cats of the town, swept over the gleaming floor
swiftly, soon lessening in the distance, as if scornful of the other
clumsy-footed traffic. He heard the merry click-clock of the swinging
hansoms, then the excited whirring of the motor-buses as they charged
full-tilt heavily down the road, their hearts, as it seemed, beating
with trepidation; they drew up with a sigh of relief by the kerb, and
stood there panting—great, nervous, clumsy things. Siegmund was always
amused by the headlong, floundering career of the buses. He was pleased
with this scampering of the traffic; anything for distraction. He was
glad Helena was not with him, for the streets would have irritated her
with their coarse noise. She would stand for a long time to watch the
rabbits pop and hobble along on the common at night; but the tearing
along of the taxis and the charge of a great motor-bus was painful to
her. 'Discords,' she said, 'after the trees and sea.' She liked the
glistening of the streets; it seemed a fine alloy of gold laid down for
pavement, such pavement as drew near to the pure gold streets of Heaven;
but this noise could not be endured near any wonderland."</p>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:06 PM Elizabeth F. Evans via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Eleanor is perhaps too modest to mention it, but her wonderful essay, “Public Transport in Woolf’s City Novels: The London Omnibus,” appears (pp. 31-39) in <i>Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, </i><span style="font-style:normal">which I co</span>edited with Sarah Cornish (Clemson University Press, 2010).<div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 5, 2021, at 2:54 PM, Eleanor McNees via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Stuart and Jeremy,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I’ll nudge my way into this conversation to say that when I annotated the Harcourt edition of<span> </span><i>The Years</i><span> </span>I spent considerable time both at the London Transport Museum archive/library and elsewhere (including a Colorado Springs carriage museum that had both landau replicas and hackney cabs) researching the history of omnibus and bus transport. I learned at that time about the Pirate omnibuses, the shields, the stair guards, etc. as well as all of the innovations following the early knifeboard seating on the top of the open omnibuses. At one point I gave a Woolf conference paper on the history of omnibus travel with specific reference to<span> </span><i>Mrs. Dalloway<span> </span></i>and<span> </span><i>The Years</i><span> </span>though<span> </span><i>Night and Day<span> </span></i>should also figure in such a discussion. This is all to say that I’m only too aware of how recondite many of Woolf’s images are to those of us in the U.S. and perhaps elsewhere.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Eleanor<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Dr. Eleanor McNees<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Professor & Interim Director of Graduate Studies<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Department of English and Literary Arts<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>University of Denver<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Denver, CO 80208<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><a href="mailto:eleanor.mcnees@du.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">eleanor.mcnees@du.edu</a><span> </span>(Eleanor McNees)</span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">From:<span> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu@lists.osu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br><b>Date:<span> </span></b>Monday, April 5, 2021 at 10:18 AM<br><b>To:<span> </span></b>Jeremy Hawthorn <<a href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no</a>>, vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:<span> </span></b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td style="width:503.906px;background-color:rgb(255,223,0);padding:0in" width="100%"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center">[External Email From]:<span> </span><b><span><a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu@lists.osu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">vwoolf-bounces+emcnees=du.edu@lists.osu.edu</a></span></b><u></u><u></u></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I have to admit that I thought the same about pirate buses. One of our VWSGB Members told me. Now I’ve discovered lots of info. Below is the most famous: the “Chocolate Express”.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Here’s an example of something I didn’t know I didn’t know until I found out I didn’t know a few years ago: what’s a street scavenger? They pop up in T. S. Eliot’s ‘A Cooking Egg’ (1920): ‘The red-eyed scavengers are creeping | From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green’. They are also mentioned in “The Years” and “Jacob’s Room”.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Answer: persons ‘whose employment is to clean streets, by scraping or sweeping together and removing dirt’ (OED).<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stuart<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span id="gmail-m_-4626083594408333441cid:image001.jpg@01D72A1A.D9CF8090"><image001.jpg></span><u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Monday, April 5, 2021 4:48 PM<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>vwoolf<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt">It's a good example of what for many might be an unknown unknown: those unfamiliar with cricket might well assume that the nets are for tennis. (Another unknown unknown for me was the pirate bus in Mrs Dalloway - which before you contextualised it, Stuart, I thought was just a bit of romancing on Elizabeth's part. Annotators, I agree, need to be alert to the possibility of such ignorance.) The things we know we don't know can always be looked up; the things we don't know we don't know remain unresearched.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">J<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">On 05.04.2021 17:23, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">It was intended as a gentle tease of foreigners outwith the Empire – but also an implied criticism of annotated editions that don’t explain what readers might need to know.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Stuart<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Monday, April 5, 2021 4:10 PM<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span><a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Re: [Vwoolf] Fancy not knowing that!<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt">I suspect you of playing "tease the foreigner" Stuart! I had a memory that when in Hollywood, Sir Cedric Hardwicke expected all expatriot Brits to turn up for net practice for the local cricket team, but could not find this on line. But I did find this, from around the time of<span> </span><i>The Waves</i>:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">"The headmaster of High Wycombe Royal Grammar School, Mr. E.R.Tucker, in an effort to stimulate the interest of parents in school affairs, has arranged cricket practice at the nets for fathers once a week."<br><br>Evening Post, Wednesday August 14, 1935<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">On 05.04.2021 16:40, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">When the boys are at school in “The Waves”, Louis “said”:<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">“We are parting, some to tea; some to the nets ...”<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Alles klar?<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div 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