[Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #1

[Jean Mills]

Perhaps follow JA Spender as a point of contact? He was supposedly the person to whom Grey uttered the lines and as one of "the most influential political journalist of his day" (D1 n11, 157), perhaps he posited some version of or the spirit of the lines either in print or in conversation that could be connected to VW. She was definitely aware that they were "caballing" in the hallway. Or perhaps it's none of these and can be attributed to the fact that sometimes the ideas are just in the air. 

Jean

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> On May 11, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Ado Haberer <adolphe at haberer.fr> wrote:
> 
> No footnote in Edward L. Bishop's Shakespeare Head Press edition which I used when I translated JR.  Interesting to note, however, that in ch. XIII "Mrs. Durrant discussed with Sir Edgar the policy of Sir Edward Grey."
> With best wishes
> Ado Haberer
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
> 
>> Le 11 mai 2015 à 15:54, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> I am helping David Bradshaw edit JR for Cambridge University Press, and we have noticed several mysteries in the text.
>>  
>> Towards the end of ch. XII:
>>  
>> “Now it was dark. Now it one after another lights were extinguished. Now great towns—Paris—Constantinople—London—were black as strewn rocks.”
>>  
>> The second sentence sounds like Sir Edward Grey’s ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’.
>>  
>> Unfortunately, this appeared in his autobiography in 1925! “It was his only memorable saying, widely quoted and anthologized subsequently” (ODNB). Would it have been known about when VW was writing JR? If so, where? If not, we shall probably have to follow Sue Roe and Vara Neverow, and say that the sentence “prefigures” or “anticipates” Grey’s reminiscence in 1925.
>>  
>> Any answers gratefully received.
>>  
>> Stuart
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