<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Hi All!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Happy weekend to all!<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:50 AM Stuart N. Clarke 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">
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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
here:</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> </div>
<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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