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

Mary Ellen Foley mefoleyuk at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 12:58:58 EDT 2016


Not a dope at all!

And if you'd like me to ask the VICTORIA list (their discussions include
the Edwardian) whether someone there can suggest a book, just say the word
--

mef

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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 <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
> *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
>
> ------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Vwoolf mailing list
> Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Vwoolf mailing list
> Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/attachments/20160615/56e71c61/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Vwoolf mailing list