[Vwoolf] Grammar problems

[Mark Hussey]

VW generally relied on LW to correct her grammar and spelling!

 

From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart N. Clarke
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:44 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Grammar problems

 

Yes: she ignored the criticism (she made no changes to the Hogarth Press reprints).

 

Stuart

 

From: Elaine Pigeon <mailto:pigeonel at videotron.ca>  

Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:20 PM

To: Stuart N. Clarke <mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>  ; vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 

Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Grammar problems

 

Any idea how Woolf responded?

 

Elaine

 

From: Stuart N. Clarke <mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>  

Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 7:50 AM

To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 

Subject: [Vwoolf] Grammar problems

 

The “Westminster Gazette” (13 Dec 1919, p. 13) calls this “a distressing womanliness in her use of English (‘after sitting there for some minutes a small girl popped her head . . .’)”.

 

‘He lit his gas-fire and settled down in gloomy patience to await his dinner. After sitting thus for some minutes a small girl popped her head in to say,

‘"Mother says, aren't you coming down, Ralph? Uncle Joseph---"’

(“Night and Day” [Duckworth, 1919], ch. ii, p. 19 [Harcourt, p. 26])

 

Stuart

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