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Yes, a wonderful passage, one that displays how for Woolf self-analysis can have a thoroughly ethical dynamic. She steps back and distances herself from her immediate reaction to the two girls (I’ll use her term), categorizing it as “instinct,” and implying
that it is this instinct that leads her to see them as “angular, awkward and assertive.” We find this same process of fixing on an emotional state and then attempting to trace their roots in
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What can we add to, or what lies behind, Woolf’s “instinct” and her response to the two tramping girls? Top of the list is social class. “City clerks or secretaries”: in other words, I assume, lower middle class. What causes Woolf to so categorize the girls?
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Her assumption seems to be that working-class girls would not be backpacking and neither would posh, upper-class girls. Her chosen adjectives are hardly in themselves pejorative, rather the opposite: “resolute, sunburnt, dusty”; “angular, awkward and self-assertive.”
But attached to a city clerk or secretary they suggest an independence and will that are worrying when associated with girls of this social class. In the first half of the twentieth century walking for pleasure was an activity very much associated with advanced
views on such matters as the nature and role of women, and with unconventional dress. A key word was the word “tramp,” used where today “hike” or “backpack” might be expected.</div>
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“Little Fyne’s marriage was quite successful. There was no design at all in it. Fyne, you must know, was an enthusiastic pedestrian. He spent his holidays tramping all over our native land. His tastes were simple. He put infinite conviction and perseverance
into his holidays. At the proper season you would meet in the fields, Fyne, a serious-faced, broad-chested, little man, with a shabby knap-sack on his back, making for some church steeple. He had a horror of roads. He wrote once a little book called the ‘Tramp’s
Itinerary,’ and was recognised as an authority on the footpaths of England. So one year, in his favourite over-the-fields, back-way fashion he entered a pretty Surrey village where he met Miss Anthony. Pure accident, you see. They came to an understanding,
across some stile, most likely. Little Fyne held very solemn views as to the destiny of women on this earth, the nature of our sublunary love, the obligations of this transient life and so on. He probably disclosed them to his future wife. Miss Anthony’s views
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What is fine about Woolf’s diary passage is the manner in which she uncovers the social and cultural prejudices that lie behind her condemnation of the two girls, then resists and rejects it. (Conrad, in contrast, mocks where Woolf indulges in self-criticism
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks, Anne and Jeremy, what a lovely passage, reminiscent of summer. With your help I've pinpointed this to 31 July (<i>D</i>3 104), a composite entry with several subheadings: these lines are under '<span>Wandervögeln</span>',
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<div>On Thursday, 27 February 2025 at 16:37:44 GMT, Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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every way angular, awkward and self. assertive. But all this is a great mistake. These screens shut me out. Have no screens, for screens are made out of our own in-tegument; and get at the thing itself, which has nothing whatever in common with a screen. The
screen-making habit, though, is so universal that probably it preserves our sanity. If we had not this device for shutting people off from our sympathies we might perhaps dissolve utterly; separateness would be impossible. But the screens are in the excess;
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