[Vwoolf] Cornflower mystery

Barbara Egel bnegel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 10:29:05 EST 2018 

RE: Cornflowers

Wedgwood has a pattern called Cornflower. A cursory google search doesn't
tell me how old it is. Not sure what sent me to painted china when I read
the quote, but it could be an approach to your question: a cornflower
that's painted on something.

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>    4. Re: Cornflower mystery (Toni McNaron)
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> From: Molly Patricia Hite <mph7 at cornell.edu>
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> Wow?what great course offerings!
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> > On Jan 29, 2018, at 8:54 PM, Dr T Tate <tt206 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> From: "Sarah M. Hall" <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> Subject: [Vwoolf]  Dallowday
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> Having talked to a few people, it seems that there is interest in creating
> a Dallowday to be celebrated each year as people see fit on a particular
> day in June. I think there was a consensus last year that the day on which
> Mrs D is set was Wed 20 June 1923. So am I right in assuming that most of
> us would consider the date more important than the day of the week? This
> year, of course, they are one and the same, which won't happen again until
> 2029.?
> Another question I've been asked is whether it should be Dallowday or
> Dalloway Day, so may I also throw that out for discussion? It seems to me
> that the former is neater and less cumbersome.
> Sarah
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> From: Elisa Sparks <sparks at clemson.edu>
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> Dear all-
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> I am writing currently writing about cornflowers (aka Bachelor Buttons) in
> Woolf and I have found a passage which makes no sense to me.  On July 21,
> 1934, Virginia and Leonard went to Cambridge to visit an old friend,
> Barbara Hutchison, recently married to Victor Rothschild and very
> pregnant.  After lunch Woolf describes Barbara as sitting ?very upright,
> painted like a cornflower? (D4 228).  I have no idea what this can possibly
> mean. Anybody else have any ideas?  Could it be a misreading of her
> handwriting?  Were women wearing vivid blue eye shadow yet?
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> Fascinated to hear what you all come up with--
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> Elisa
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> From: Toni McNaron <mcnar001 at umn.edu>
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> Not sure about eye shadow, but there is another name for cornflowers in
> the South where I grew up.? The flower is called "ragged robin," the
> word I learned for it as a child.? I always loved planting them--dark
> blue, soft pink, off white.? Their bloom looks like a wind-torn object;
> it's an "untidy" bloom, hence the common name of "ragged," though I had
> no idea about the "robin" part.
>
> Years ago, in a PBS production about Elizabeth I, in powerful scene in
> which Elizabeth tells Robert Dudley, her main sexual interest in many of
> our minds, that his future was going to be grim, she calls him
> affectionately "My ragged Robin."? I began to wonder if the gardener in
> the South who began calling the flower a "ragged robin" might have known
> this story and thought the tattered blossom was like poor Robert
> Dudley's fate.
>
> Woolf was fascinated with Elizabeth I's life, so I offer this anecdote
> to the list.
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> Toni
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> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:42:45 +0000
> From: Anne Fernald <fernald at fordham.edu>
> To: "Sarah M. Hall" <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> As I have said here before, I?m of two minds about this:
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> 1. I strongly disagree with those who confidently set the novel on one
> date: David Bradshaw?s work, the work of others, and my own research show
> pretty clearly that there was no Wed. that included the Royal Family being
> on residence, the flower show, a heat wave, and hose cricket matches.
>
> 2. I love parties, celebrations, and celebrating Woolf and, if the Day were
> asterisked as above and celebrated as say, the second or third Wed in June
> annually, that would be really fun.
>
> I can?t imagine anything other than Dallowday for the name.
>
> Best,
>
> Anne
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> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:11 AM Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> > Having talked to a few people, it seems that there is interest in
> creating
> > a Dallowday to be celebrated each year as people see fit on a particular
> > day in June. I think there was a consensus last year that the day on
> which
> > Mrs D is set was Wed 20 June 1923. So am I right in assuming that most of
> > us would consider the date more important than the day of the week? This
> > year, of course, they are one and the same, which won't happen again
> until
> > 2029.
> >
> > Another question I've been asked is whether it should be Dallowday or
> > Dalloway Day, so may I also throw that out for discussion? It seems to me
> > that the former is neater and less cumbersome.
> >
> > Sarah
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