[Vwoolf] Darlings, am I a snob?

[Andrea]

And now I see on Facebook that Persephone Books has bought and made
cushions from a fabric purchased at Charleston--it's called "Queen Mary"
and is a Duncan Grant print.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Swoon . . .
>
> As I say, there's much more to be done.  Princess Mary pops up in "Mrs.
> Dalloway" as a symbol of the post-war world, because she is "married to an
> Englishman".
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Adolphe Haberer
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 4:42 PM
> To: Stuart N. Clarke ; vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-**state.edu<vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Darlings, am I a snob?
>
>
> If Stuart wants to include VW's fiction in his
> research, there is a discreet and rather elegant
> reference to the Royal Family in chapter V of
> Jacob's Room:
>
> "The autumn season was in full swing. Tristan was twitching his rug up
> under his armpits twice a week; Isolde waved her scarf in miraculous
> sympathy with the conductor's baton. In all parts of the house were to
> be found pink faces and glittering breasts. When a Royal hand attached
> to an invisible body slipped out and withdrew the red and white bouquet
> reposing on the scarlet ledge, the Queen of England seemed a name worth
> dying for."
>
> Ado
>
>
>
>
>  We really must do more research on VW and the Royal Family.
>>
>> In "Street Haunting", when the narrator imagines being in Mayfair, she
>> concludes her reverie with "watching the moonlit cat creep along Princess
>> Mary's garden wall" (The Essays, Vol. IV, p. 486).
>>
>> Princess Mary and her husband Lord Lascelles did indeed live in Mayfair,
>> in Chesterfield House -- "where the famous letters were penned" (Ward, Lock
>> Guide to London, 1934, p. 129.  It was on the corner of South Audley Street
>> and Curzon Street, and was demolished in 1937.
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Mary,_Princess_Royal_and_**
>> Countess_of_Harewood<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Princess_Royal_and_Countess_of_Harewood>
>> >http://**en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_**Princess_Royal_and_Countess_**
>> of_Harewood<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Princess_Royal_and_Countess_of_Harewood>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Chesterfield_House,_**Westminster<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield_House,_Westminster>
>> >http://en.**wikipedia.org/wiki/**Chesterfield_House,_**Westminster<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield_House,_Westminster>
>>
>> Another footnote is required.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>
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