[Vwoolf] "Talk to me, Henry"

[Adolphe Haberer]

Very amusing, Stuart, but not quite compatible with the sense of pride and male superiority Mr Dickens has while chatting with Mrs Barfoot: "For at home in the little sitting-room above the mews, with the canary in the window, and the girls at the sewing-machine, and Mrs. Dickens huddled up with the rheumatics--at home where he was made little of, the thought of being in the employ of Captain Barfoot supported him. He liked to think that while he chatted with Mrs. Barfoot on the front, he helped the Captain on his way to Mrs.  Flanders. He, a man, was in charge of Mrs. Barfoot, a woman."
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Ado

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Le 26 juil. 2016 à 17:35, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> a écrit :

> 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”).
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Adolphe Haberer
Professeur émérite à l'Université Lumière-Lyon 2
1 route de Saint-Antoine
69380 Chazay d'Azergues
33 (0)4 78 43 65 24
33 (0)6 63 57 95 91
adolphe.haberer at univ-lyon2.fr
ado at haberer.fr