[Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": crux #8

[Stuart N. Clarke]

What a dope I am!  David Bradshaw reminds me that he’s addressed the topic in:

‘The Blight of Class: Woolf and the “Lower Orders”’, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, No.85 (Spring 2014) [Special Issue on ‘Woolf and Materiality’, ed. Derek Ryan], pp.11-13. 
Stuart

From: Stuart N. Clarke 
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:21 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": crux #8

I have almost finished drafting the notes (c. 1175) for “Jacob’s Room”.  It had never occurred to me until now that *this* was going to be a problem:

“The Wesleyan minister came along and took the younger boy.”

I know that Methodism was very popular in Cornwall, and I’ve kept assuming that I was going to easily find a useful book about it, but I haven’t.  I suppose this optimism prevented me from thinking clearly about the text.

Where has the minister taken Mrs Pascoe’s son?  What for?  Is it schooling?

Why can’t I find anything?!

Stuart


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