[Vwoolf] Still on the early pages

[Gill Lowe]

http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/stephen/37d.htm

And Talland House french windows seen here- quite a plunge into the garden.
Gill

> On 5 Oct 2013, at 08:58, Gill Lowe <gill.lowe1 at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ours- 1905- open outwards. There is also a step down so there is a sudden descent from inside to outside.
> Gill
> 
>> On 5 Oct 2013, at 08:42, "Stuart N. Clarke" <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> Years ago, I remember getting bogged down on:
>>  
>> “she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air.”
>>  
>> All because I read somewhere that french windows in France (on the Continent generally?) open(ed) outwards, while in the UK they opened inwards.  Is this true?  If so, then “burst open” sounds more appropriate for French french windows. 
>>  
>> In the house I grew up in (built 1936), they opened inwards, but in our current house (built 1999) they open outwards, although, because of the various catches, you can’t “burst [them] open”.
>>  
>> Stuart 
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