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<DIV>A friend gave me “Christmas Pudding” (1932) recently, and there are plums
on almost every page.</DIV>
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<DIV>“In time, of course, she intended to marry some rich and colourless man so
that she could settle down in Chelsea – a hostess”. Remind you of Lady
Colefax?</DIV>
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<DIV>And here’s one for some of us in Lockdown:</DIV>
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<DIV>“Philadelphia found herself once more without any occupation or interests,
and for the rest of that day she sat before the fire in an arm-chair, assailed
by the ghastly boredom only known to those who live in the country but have no
love for country pursuits, and no intellectual resources on which they can fall
back.”</DIV>
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<DIV>This means I’ve now read 7 of the 8 (“Highland Fling” years ago – I
remember nothing, except that when they had they fire all the dreadful old
Victoriana was saved), but “Pigeon Pie” has escaped me.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
<DIV>(Memo: avoid double-negatives in future)</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=ericadelsandro@gmail.com>Erica Delsandro</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 15, 2021 4:08 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@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf / Mitford</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">Hi
All!</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">I love that
Nancy Mitford has made her way onto the Woolf email list! I only have one
bit to add to Sarah and Stuart's comments: if you haven't read Mitford, READ
MITFORD! She is hilarious and complicated. Her 30s novels are too
often overlooked. And her family! Every biography of her and her
sisters is not only fascinating, funny, and full of cringes (some Mitfords are
squarely on the wrong side of history), but also a snapshot of the first half of
the 20th century in all its messiness.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">And if
anyone has a Mitford project in mind, I'd love to contribute!</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,serif">Happy
weekend to all!<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_attr dir=ltr>On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:50 AM Stuart N. Clarke
via Vwoolf <<A>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Which reminds me: many (at least 20) years ago, we on this list were
encouraged by the IVWS to submit “Passing Glances”: “<SPAN>References to
Woolf, or her characters, are likely to show up in the most unlikely
places”. I submitted this very passage, and you can find it
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href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.ibiblio.org/sally/passing_glances.html__;!!KGKeukY!lqgNKwpYWOu4uNU1FgbFIDILetfqaMbgEZopHK5oQX_lXh5VDLEwldszMvU7Y1jMT28$"
target=_blank>www.ibiblio.org/sally/passing_glances.html</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>The Delasandro article is concerned with "Wigs on the Green" (1935)
– which, accordingly, I then read.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Here’s another “unlikely place”: Philip J. Davis, "The Mathematics
of Matrices: A First Book of Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra" (Ginn and
Company, 2nd edn, 1965), "Frontispiece" ("we have made oblongs and stood them
upon squares. This is our triumph; this is our consolation.")</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Stuart</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>(Ay, it’s truly said, the nearer you are to the kirk, the later you
are for the service.)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 15, 2021 12:58 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Woolf / Mitford</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>There’s lots of talk in the UK about the new TV adaptation of Nancy
Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. I posted about it on the VWSGB Facebook page
because the first episode featured a character reading Orlando (from which she
quoted a line to her dissolute friend), then later Mrs Dalloway. Cover images
were cobbled together from Bell’s illustrations for Woolf books.<BR><BR>Philip
Ward of The Mitford Society has posted this message underneath my
post:<BR><BR>There’s a reference to Woolf in Love in a Cold Climate, the
sequel to The Pursuit of Love. Lady Montdore asks Fanny who is this Virginia
Woolf she’s heard about from Lord Merlin. Fanny tells her she’s a novelist.
Lady M: “As she’s so intellectual, no doubt she writes about nothing but
station-masters ... I prefer books about society people”. Whereupon Fanny
recommends Mrs Dalloway, “a fascinating book about a society
person”.<BR><BR><BR>The Woolf / Mitford link has not gone unnoticed elsewhere.
If anyone possesses this book: Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader,
ed. Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies (Liverpool UP, 2014), you can find the
article ‘ “Drawn from Our Island History”: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and
the Politics of Pageantry’, by Erica Delsandro.<BR><BR><BR>Sarah M.
Hall<BR>Virginia Woolf Society GB</DIV>
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