[Vwoolf] Dental health in Bloomsbury: Ott and Bertie

Stuart N. Clarke stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 21 10:37:04 EDT 2015


Well, my teeth are now like the Somme in there.  Age has caught up with my teenage fillings.  But enough of my identification with Evan Williams (in JR) “with his toothpick out already”.

In answer to the original question, see DARROCH, Sandra Jobson, "Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell" (NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1975): “Then there was the matter of his breath. Unfortunately Bertie suffered from acute halitosis,* which made kissing him something of an ordeal. Ottoline couldn’t bring herself to tell him about it and he, lacking for the past nine years anyone to apprise him of the state of the state of his breath, was oblivious to it. There were formidable obstacles to their love.” (p. 102).

*Not to be confused with bromidrosis or phimosis, or other contraceptives.

Stuart

From: David Eberly 
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 8:58 PM
To: Anne Margaret Daniel 
Cc: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Dental health in Bloomsbury: Ott and Bertie

Since I am spending a great deal of time in the dentist's chair I am loving this conversation.  I will be channeling my inner Woolf at my next appointment - David

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On Oct 9, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu> wrote:


  Dear all, 
  May I just say that this exchange has brightened a rainy Friday immensely.  
  Also, when I was first reading her letters and diaries, I began to keep a count of how many teeth Virginia was having extracted.  It seemed to me that she was always in a dentist's chair.  She delighted in laughing gas as a help.  I am a bit ashamed, but also relieved, to say I stopped counting at nine.
  A happy weekend to everybody.
  AM



  On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Roy Johnson <roy at mantex.co.uk> wrote:

    Russell might also have commented on her taking two baths per year

    Dr Roy Johnson
    www.mantex.co.uk
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    From: Vwoolf [vwoolf-bounces+roy=texman.demon.co.uk at lists.osu.edu] on behalf of K L Levenback [kllevenback at att.net]
    Sent: 09 October 2015 13:02
    To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
    Subject: [Vwoolf] Dental health in Bloomsbury:  Ott and Bertie


    A friend said that Ottoline M. commented on Bertrand Russell's halitosis.

    Does anyone have insight on this?

    Just wondering--
    Karen Levenback

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