[Vwoolf] Miss Pym’s conservatory

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“There was another gust and the sound of glass crashing.
“’Miss Pym’s conservatory?’ said Martin ...
“Miss Pym?’ said Eleanor.  She’s been dead these twenty years!” (end of ‘1908’, “The Years”)

Cf. the end of ch. 2 in Mary MacCarthy’s “A Nineteenth-Century Childhood” (1924):

“For a long time now the sound of crashing and smashing of glass has been in my ears.
“It is the strong, rose-coloured glass of the nineteenth century conservatories cracking up. ...”


Stuart

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