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<DIV>Wasn’t some reviewer/commentator quoted on this list not long ago, saying
that great writers were never inclusive, or some such rubbish?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What we do have to remember that inclusivity as we understand it nowadays
is a very recent way of looking at the world (pace Mrs Swithin and Prof
Godbole). Previously, distinguishing people one from the other –
exclusivity – was how one looked at life.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>“*doct(o)ress.* It is a serious inconvenience that neither form (-tress
would be the better) has been brought into any but facetious use as a prefixed
title” (H. W. Fowler, “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1926), p. 120a</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>“What has given Jenufa this strange idea, that her dress is so plain and
sombre on her wedding day?”</DIV>
<DIV>“What, Jenufa? All the finest gentry dress plainly and simply when
they go to the altar!”</DIV>
<DIV>“Gentle folk have their own fashions and customs, but we are only simple
people! I’d never dream of being wed without my bridal crown and ribbons
never! Never!”</DIV>
<DIV>(Libretto to Janacek’s opera)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Of course, in 3G Woolf deplores the uniforms and badges of distinction that
set men off from one another. Of course, she writes: “it seems to me the
wrong way to live, drawing chalk marks round ones feet, and saying ... you can’t
come in” (L no. 3111). But she’s a long way from inclusivity in the modern
sense.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I’m was reminded about isolated people were from one another, when I was
reading recently two collections I’ve had for 45 years, “My Cambridge” and “My
Oxford” (I hadn’t realised how miserable Nigel Nicolson was at Balliol).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>“it was not till my first term at Cambridge that I spoke to my first Jew
and met my first black man (from Blackpool and Jamaica respectively)” (John
Vaizey (1929-84), went up to Queens’ in 1948).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There could be an advantage if you were gay: “I think I can safely say
that, until I went to Oxford, I had never known anyone of working-class
background. There had, of course, been my London promiscuous sexual
encounters. Many of these had been with cockney working-class young
men. But this life which had begun before I was sixteen was a world as
separate from my daily life as were my dreams ... Apart from that, the only
working-class people I had known were servants – and, given my family’s near
penury, these were not many. I had never known anyone well who came from
north of the Home Counties; and, apart from one visit with my father to Scotland
... I had never penetrated into England north of Hampstead” (Angus Wilson
(1913-91, went up to Merton in 1935).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>