[Vwoolf] Peacehaven

[Sarah M. Hall]

 Indexes are greatly undervalued on the whole. They are often the means by which you access a non-fiction book (once you've read it cover to cover, of course). Yet so many indexes are nothing more sophisticated than alphabetical lists of names and places, while some books (horror of horrors) have no index at all. And there should be a lot more cross-referencing, so you can look up Trevose View under T and not just Woolf, Virginia / Personal life / 1905  / Holidays / Cornwall . . . (I exaggerate for effect). The obstacle, obviously, is expense. Publishers pay set fees for indexes, and indexers (selfish beasts) do as much as they can within the parameters of budget and schedule. Similarly with editing. Expect textbooks of the future to contain all of the author's habitual tics, as the editor is asked increasingly often to 'go with the author's preferences'.

 

    On Monday, 8 February 2021, 10:55:31 GMT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  
 
 As well as VW, it’s worth reading LW describing a walk on 4? August 1914 and discussing Peacehaven in “Beginning Again”, pp. 146-8.  For those who don’t have the 5-vol. edn, good luck finding this in any other edn!  Nothing in the index to help.  Finding something you half remember in his auto is often a challenge.  Take something like “any sensible man must be a feminist” – try finding that again. Stuart(Day 328) From: Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 10:15 AMTo: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Peacehaven 
The Wikipedia entry for Peacehaven is worth looking at. Here's a taster:

"Peacehaven was established in 1916 by entrepreneur Charles Neville, who had purchased land in the parish of Piddinghoe; he then set up a company to develop the site (he also eventually built nearby towns Saltdean and parts of Rottingdean).[4] He advertised it by setting up a competition in virtually every newspaper in England to name the development. The Daily Express later sued Neville over the competition, holding that it was a scam, since he was offering "free" plots of land in the town as runner-up prizes but issuing them only on the payment of a conveyancing fee. The name of the winners who chose the name 'New Anzac-on-Sea' (to commemorate the ANZAC's involvement in the Battle of Gallipoli)[5] were Mr West of Ilford Essex and Mr Kemp of Maidstone Kent. On 12 February 1917 Mr Neville changed the name to Peacehaven. The Express won the case, but the publicity brought the scheme to a large audience. The idea was then to sell plots of land cheaply for people to build on themselves. Initially the town was New Anzac-on-Sea but less than a year later in 1917 it was renamed Peacehaven."

So New Anzac-on-sea went the way of New Amsterdam . . .

Jeremy H
 On 05.02.2021 16:22, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:

   “Would it much affect us, we ask ourselves, if a sea monster erected his horrid head off the coast of Sussex and licked up the entire population of Peacehaven and then sank to the bottom of the sea?” (Essays 4, p. 290)



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