[Vwoolf] 'a look of John Burrows'

[ANNE Fernald [Staff/Faculty [A&S]]]

As a coda, Rohan Maitzen, on Twitter, directs my attention to her lovely &
interesting essay on Woolf as a critic. I'd read it before (not while
Trollope-hunting), but perhaps you haven't seen it.

Maitzen comes to Woolf as a Victorianist and so some of the things that
irritate her are the very ones I love--something that makes her
appreciation grate at times and also teaches me something I wouldn't have
otherwise learned.

Best,

A

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, ANNE Fernald [Staff/Faculty [A&S]] <
fernald at fordham.edu> wrote:

> Good afternoon, Woolfians,
>
> I'm combing through the final bits and bobs of my edition of Mrs. Dalloway
> and I think I've found the source for "a look of John Burrows" (thanks to
> the Oxford database of all its reference books, as multiple other tries
> ended up blank):
>
> It turns out that in Trollope’s *The Vicar of Bullhampton* (1870), John
> Burrows is a notorious jailbird, also called ‘Jack the Grinder’, who is
> convicted of the murder of Farmer Trumbull.
>
> So, that seems right--a good shorthand way to indicate someone looks like
> a career criminal while at the same time remaining in the bounds of what
> one could say in Clarissa's drawing room.
>
> That's the treat. Now, my query: does anyone have anything clever,
> relevant, or interesting to add about Woolf on Trollope? I'd be most
> grateful for your thoughts. Her words on him are few and I'm not turning up
> much of enough significance to add to the footnote, except to say---what?
> She knew his work but didn't particularly admire it? Well, duh....
>
> All best to you in the New Year,
>
> Anne
>
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Associate Professor of
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Women's
Studies <http://www.fordham.edu/womens_studies>
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