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<DIV>It’s a dodgy business pontificating about names: one tends to impose one’s
own prejudices and one’s own times on them. E.g. Emily – quaintly
Victorian to me. Pams are all of a certain age; Susans not much
better. Daisy was a nickname for Margaret, then had a life of its own when
flower names became popular at the end of the 19th C. Daisy was born about
the time of Daisy’s greatest popularity. I wonder if that popularity was
influenced by the music-hall song (that everyone still knows, even small
children). If so, that suggests to me that those influenced are not likely
to have been the well-to-do. (I always think of it as a “common” name – I
don’t think I’ve ever met a Daisy.) Duncan Grant’s aunt was Daisy McNeil
(d. 1947).</DIV>
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<DIV>It has to be remembered that the Raj was a very middle class closed
society, consisting largely of young and middle-aged people. There was no
aristocracy (except the Viceroy), no working classes (no jobs for them, except
ordinary soldiers in the Indian Army), no elderly (they’ve retired Home), no
children (they’ve been sent off to boarding school, preferably at Home).</DIV>
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<DIV>As for half-caste women, they were often observed to be very beautiful
(rather than “pretty”). The trouble was, it was remarked, they didn’t
last.</DIV>
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<DIV>“The British who chose to stay on [in India] were mainly from the lower
levels of society, often retired soldiers, who got jobs on the railways.
They married girls who called themselves European but who were widely suspected
of being Eurasian. ... They were a sad group, not wanting to be Indian yet not
accepted fully as part of the ruling race. Respectable British society
laughed at them ... They were not asked to join the Clubs or invited to the best
parties. ... The [Eurasian] girls, who were often very beautiful, tried to
obliterate any hint of Indian blood with powder and paint preparations which
promised ‘Four shades whiter in four weeks!’ Their dream was to marry a
British husband and go Home [where they had never been].” (“Women of the Raj” by
Margaret MacMillan (2nd edn, 2018), pp. 58-9).</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV>“Half-caste woman, living a life apart,</DIV>
<DIV>“Where did your story begin?”</DIV>
<DIV>(Noel Coward, 1931)</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Jeremy
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some reason the popularity of the name Daisy in the UK plunged dramatically
(why?) just about when Woolf was writing Mrs Dalloway. See
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<P class=MsoNormal>For some reason the popularity of the name Daisy in the UK
plunged dramatically (why?) just about when Woolf was writing <I>Mrs
Dalloway</I>. See<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ukbabynames.com/girls/daisy__;!!KGKeukY!1S2yEmBWFgTFAjrMnEvH_JfL9aUkYyh3R_OlksbH7IGauwlvYAiX0dg-FuQ1Q4Q6UH1Nfj5MmKw1-1IiiSBOoq7vwSH3U_bQV5BAy9c$">https://www.ukbabynames.com/girls/daisy</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>This of course may not apply to India, and in <I>Mrs
Dalloway</I> Daisy would presumably have been baptised when the name was
popular.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I wonder if, in terms of class, “Daisy” suggests the lower
end of the social scale.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Peter Walsh is 53 and Daisy is 24, married, and with 2
children. All this would raise an eyebrow even today . . . It certainly is
striking that every time Peter Walsh thinks of her, the word “dark” is used.
“Out came with his pocket-knife a snapshot of Daisy on the verandah; Daisy all
in white, with a fox-terrier on her knee; very charming, very dark; the best he
had ever seen of her.” “And the dark, adorably pretty girl on the verandah
exclaimed (he could hear her).” “Vainly the dark, adorably pretty girl ran to
the end of the terrace; vainly waved her hand; vainly cried she didn't care a
straw what people said.” “(and the dark, adorably pretty face was on top of the
envelopes)”. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>As for attitudes towards those of mixed ethnic backgrounds,
Joseph Conrad’s first novel <I>Almayer’s Folly</I>, set in Bornean Sambir and
published in 1895, includes a meeting between Dutch officers, Almayer, and his
“half-caste” daughter Nina. One young officer is taken aback by Nina’s
beauty.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>‘The young sub began to recover from the astonishment and
confusion caused by Nina's unexpected appearance and great beauty. "She was very
beautiful and imposing," he reflected, "but after all a half-caste girl." This
thought caused him to pluck up heart and look at Nina sideways. Nina, with
composed face, was answering in a low, even voice the elder officer's polite
questions as to the country and her mode of life.’<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: en-gb">Jeremy
Hawthorn<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: en-gb">Professor
Emeritus<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-language: en-gb">NTNU<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: en-gb">7491
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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