[Vwoolf] Blake ref. in JR?

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Stuart -

Google Books tells me that on page 129 of the book from which you are 
quoting, the link between Jacob, Florinda, and Blake's "The Mental 
Traveller" is explained.

J


On 29.06.2018 12:50, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> Does anyone understand this ref. to Blake?  I don’t, although I have 
> been doing some hunting.
> [12]  In contrast to Florinda's lying is Clara's honesty. "Alas, women 
> lie! But not Clara Durrant. A flawless mind; a candid nature; a virgin 
> chained to a rock" (123). (Clara does not "lie" in another sense 
> too–hence her virginity–though Florinda, the lier, does.) The Blake 
> reference recalls Virginia's writing Leonard candidly on May 1, 1912 
> that, when she kissed him, she felt no more than a rock
> https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/1999/01/20/signing-woolf-textual-body-name
> The ref. is of course (also?) to Andromeda.
> Stuart
>
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