[Vwoolf] Frank Swinnerton on The Waves

[Harish Trivedi]

But why "short-term"? Did he recover from it after 1935?  Or was that
meltdown his final dictum?

I loved the joke about the weighing machine ticket. Exactly my feelings
very often, both recto and verso!

Sent from my phone

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, 20:14 Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf, <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> It was a short-term memory problem.  I have a 1st edn of *The Georgian
> Literary Scene* (quote on pp. 392 –3) – so battered that I only paid
> A$0.50 on 27/4/76 – it was published in 1935.  However, in "Marionette
> shows", his review of “The Waves” in 1931, he refers to “six characters”
> (reprinted in MAJUMDAR, Robin, & Allen McLaurin).
>
> Stuart
> *From:* Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:19 PM
> *To:* vwoolf
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Frank Swinnerton on The Waves
>
>
> You remember right.  I tracked down the comment.
>
> "She claimed to be presenting not Mrs Brown, but Mrs Brownness. That
> sounds splendid. But in order to discover the Mrs Brownness Virginia Woolf
> was forced to write solely of ruminative or introspective persons, and when
> she had carried her exploration to the four minds in *The Waves* she had
> reached as far as that particular method would take her. There were four
> poetic somethings; but they all thought alike." (Frank Swinnerton, *The
> Georgian Literary Scene*, Everyman edition, revised 1951, p. 281)
>
> This reminds me of the old humorous seaside postcard that has a picture of
> a rather formidable wife looking at the card a weighing machine has given
> to her very meek looking husband. "It says you are handsome, muscular and
> decisive. It's got your weight wrong too." Had he even read the novel?
>
> Jeremy H
>
>
> On 05.10.2020 17:03, Harish Trivedi wrote:
>
> Did not Frank Swinnerton in *The Georgian Literary Scene* count the total
> number of characters in the novel as four -- if I remember right.  They
> were all too *vague *for him, obviously, and tended to merge into each
> other.
>
> Harish Trivedi
>
>
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