[Vwoolf] Banner Week

[Anne Margaret Daniel]

Oh dear.  This old word again -- so often applied to Woolf, Yeats,
Eliot....quite a few of the High (-toned) Moderns.  Rather applicable at
times to some of them, but, I think, never to Woolf.  Something to ponder
over the weekend:  why does speaking in proper English and using words well
so frequently get authors called "snobs"?  And I'll leave you with
Virginia's own reply to such accusations, which she must have grinned at as
she penned it: "Dont dismiss me as an etiolated, decadent, enervated,
emasculated, priggish blood-waterish 'ighbrow."
A happy weekend to everyone.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Kristin Czarnecki <
Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu> wrote:

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> It’s been a banner week for Woolf bashing. Nick Hornby claims to have read
> *Mrs. Dalloway* for the first time just recently and decides that Woolf’s
> a snob, and the second article includes a photo of Woolf with the caption,
> “Snob: Virginia Woolf.”****
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> Kristin****
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> http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/10/nick-hornby-blasts-booker-woolf-and-snobbery-at-the-92nd-street-y
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2223170/This-feast-diaries-leave-indigestion-EVENTS-DEAR-BOY-EVENTS-A-POLITICAL-DIARY-OF-BRITAIN-FROM-WOOLF-TO-CAMPBELL-EDITED-BY-RUTH-WINSTONE.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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