[Vwoolf] Madge Vaughan "believed in her genius"

[Stephen Barkway]

Dear Mary Ellen

It would seem likely that QB would have been quoting from a letter from Madge which prompted Virginia to respond as follows:

'I do enjoy flattery! I never seriously meant to deny myself the pleasure of writing, however bad it be for the public morals!—As a matter of fact I am vain enough to think it had better read me than more popular authors. "Genius" is not a word to be used rashly; it gives me enormous pleasure, and something more than pleasure, that you should find anything of that kind in me.'

(Letters I, 1 Dec [1904])

Stephen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mary Ellen Foley 
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  Subject: [Vwoolf] Madge Vaughan "believed in her genius"


  Quentin Bell says

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  Madge, who liked Virginia and "believed in her genius," was nevertheless sensible of...
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  That's in vol 1, page 92, of the 1972 2-vols-in-1 paperback from Harcourt/Harvest.  But there's no footnote to let us know where he got the phrase or who said/wrote it.  The page has two block quotations from Vanessa Bell's letters to Madge Vaughan, which have proper citations in the end notes; I looked up those letters and the quoted phrase isn't taken from them, unless I've got some kind of bizarre blind spot and couldn't see it right in front of me.


  Am I overlooking something tremendously obvious here?  Who's he quoting?


  Mary Ellen

  M.E.Foley
  MEFoleyUK at gmail.com




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