[Vwoolf] Fwd: "Leonard to Keep His Virgins"

Jeannette Smyth jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net
Thu May 16 22:47:50 EDT 2013



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> From: Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net>
> Date: May 16, 2013 3:07:27 PM MDT
> To: VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Leonard to Keep His Virgins"
> 
> With respect, it certainly could be a playful reference to Leonard's 1914 novel, and rather a more unkind reference to the two ladies who occupied the offices of the International Review, of which Leonard was editor. They were Louise Ernestine Matthei, assistant editor, and Minna Green, secretary (LW, Downhill All the Way, 17).
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> Vol. One of the Diaries has several interesting entries by VW on Miss Matthei, as well as one of Anne Olivier Bell's helpful biographical notes, on page 135. 
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> No such note for Minna Green, but she is listed in the index with references (one of them apparently unkind) on page 254 and 309.
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> Jeannette Smyth
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> On May 16, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Elizabeth Evans wrote:
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>> Perhaps it's both–a reference to his office staff with a playful allusion to LW's novel The Wise Virgins. 
>> 
>> Liz
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>> Dr. Elizabeth F. Evans
>> University of Notre Dame
>> elizabeth.evans at nd.edu
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>> On May 16, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Stephen Barkway <sbarkway at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>>> I would guess she's referring to Leonard's office staff.
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>>> Stephen
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Jonathan Reeve
>>> To: Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:31 PM
>>> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Leonard to Keep His Virgins"
>>> 
>>> Hi V-Woolf Listserv,
>>> 
>>> A quick question: in Woolf's diaries (vol. 1, p. 318), there is the curious note "L. to keep his office & his virgins. We think we now deserve some good luck. Yet I daresay we’re the happiest couple in England." Having not read much more of the diaries, I'm don't have the slightest clue who or what Leonard's "virgins" might be. Does anyone know? 
>>> 
>>> Here's a tiny bit of context, from Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=a31bAAAAMAAJ&q="L+to+keep+his+office+and+his+virgins"&dq="L+to+keep+his+office+and+his+virgins"&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y0GVUd-sJvWy4APSpIHICA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
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>>> -Jon Reeve
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