[Vwoolf] bungalows and villas

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Worderful poster Stuart! Even gets a man in shirt-sleeves in. And the 
poem quoted from in dim script is "Sanctuary" by William Cowper, whose 
poem "The Castaway" is quoted from by Mr Ramsay - so a double whammy in 
Woolf terms!

Jeremy


On 26.02.2020 13:40, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> This poster says it all (from Woolf’s pov).
> Stuart
> See the source image
> *From:* Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:35 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu ; Jeremy Hawthorn
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] bungalows and villas
> Woolf certainly meant it in the pejorative sense. I always think of 
> her hyperbolic description of Little Talland House in Firle:
> ‘This is not a cottage, but a hideous suburban villa — I have to 
> prepare people for the shock.’
> (Letter 582, 31 August 1911)
> Actually the house is a perfectly acceptable semi, but was obviously a 
> lot newer in Woolf's time.
> Sarah M. Hall
> Virginia Woolf Society of GB
> On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 12:22:24 GMT, Jeremy Hawthorn via 
> Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Re the recent exchange about VW's view of bungalows. In /The Waves/ 
> Neville says: "Alas! I could not ride about India in a sun helmet and 
> return to a bungalow." I used to assume that he meant "retire to a 
> bungalow in England," but Woolf doubtless knew that the word is of 
> Indian (Hindi) origin, so the imagined bungalow is presumably in India 
> not the home counties, and returned to not on retirement but at close 
> of day.
>
> Another tricky dwelling term is "villa," a word that seems largely to 
> have dropped out of (Real) Estate jargon in the UK, but that survives 
> in many road names ("Riverside villas" etc etc). Again in /The Waves/, 
> Jinny says "Look – all the windows of the villas and their 
> white-tented curtains dance [. . .]. There are bowers and arbours in 
> these villa gardens  and young men in shirt-sleeves on ladders 
> trimming roses." I again used to think that these would be gardeners 
> working for posh families: my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 
> gives among other definitions: "a large house in a town" for "villa." 
> The old SOED also gives "country house or farm, country mansion or 
> residence . . . hence any residence of a superior type . . . such as 
> is occupied by a person of the middle class," but it adds: "also any 
> small better-class dwelling house, usu. one which is detached or 
> semi-detached." I take it that this is what Jinny sees: the men in 
> shirt-sleeves are middle-class owner-occupiers, not of large houses or 
> country mansions, but of small(ish) houses with gardens. Right?
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Hawthorn
> Emeritus Professor
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology
> 7491 Trondheim
> Norway
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