[Vwoolf] "Talk to me, Henry"

[Jean Mills]

Seems to me a damning critique of patriarchy? The Cult of the Invalid in
its last days? To what extent has he helped in creating his own rock of
Sisyphus in the form of the idle middle class woman, unable to walk,
yearning for conversation.

To what extent have we exchanged that cult for the Cult of Personality??
Just tossing that around over coffee as I sit here talking to my dog, in
the middle of the mountains. "Talk to me Tallulah" :)

Jean

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hope you can see this cartoon from “Punch”, 4 March 1931, p. 235.  It
> seems to depict Mrs Barfoot being pushed by Mr Dickens (“At three Mr.
> Dickens, the bath-chair man, had called for Mrs. Barfoot”), whose name
> turns out to be Henry.  Significantly, he is pushing in the opposite
> direction from “Mount Pleasant” (Mr Dickens “was thinking how Captain
> Barfoot was now on his way to Mount Pleasant [the name of Betty Flanders’s
> house]; Captain Barfoot, his master”).
>
> Stuart
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Jean Mills
Associate Professor
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
New York, NY 10019

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