[Vwoolf] Vwoolf Digest, Vol 108, Issue 2 green lustres

Palvasha von Hassell p_v_hassell at t-online.de
Sat May 1 13:09:04 EDT 2021 

Dear Vara, 

Haven‘t posted in a while, so hope I‘m doing this right regards the subject specification; "lustre" is a synonym for chandelier, also spelt "luster", if therebis any confusion regarding this...

Best, Palvasha

Palvasha von Hassell
M.Phil. IR (Selwyn 1985)
Cambridge University

Am Mühlenteich 35
25436 Uetersen
Germany

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>   1. Re: "Green" lustres (Neverow, Vara S.)
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>      Man Problem" (Neverow, Vara S.)
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> Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 12:56:14 +0000
> From: "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
> To: "Stuart N. Clarke" <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>,
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> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres
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> Beautiful example!
> 
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
> ________________________________
> From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 8:53:24 AM
> To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres
> 
> (1) I don?t really understand the difference between the different types of glass: cut glass, lead crystal, cut crystal, and so on, but I don?t see why they can?t all be coloured.  However, someone in the listserv has sent me an excellent example of what I was looking for:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rubylane.com/item/1866992-113221/Pair-Electrified-Antique-Green-Glass-Girandoles__;!!KGKeukY!kRRxU3uyLZ7fKE52ZGW26JZbP7F-fBkdQ-Sg10ScwN107jNcWzpXBa9ex4GXxcuSFFo$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Furldefense.com*2Fv3*2F__https*3A*2F*2Fwww.rubylane.com*2Fitem*2F1866992-113221*2FPair-Electrified-Antique-Green-Glass-Girandoles__*3B!!KGKeukY!gESSE9hHS8puOLycZQI3llar9ImRvKl49YnYfggWUdMWLN_25DfuL0iZb3Iv-Pb5BSA*24&data=04*7C01*7Cneverowv1*40southernct.edu*7C048929a9574448f5f82108d90ca02233*7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67*7C0*7C1*7C637554704190352253*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=qFu*2Bj2mNdUbsdFaCP9lyPFr*2BxbeUGDSwAW7OlP74Vb4*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!kRRxU3uyLZ7fKE52ZGW26JZbP7F-fBkdQ-Sg10ScwN107jNcWzpXBa9ex4GXsiXF97A$ >
> In any case, if the vase/candlestick is of green glass and the lustres aren?t, the light bouncing off the former will reflect and refract greenly on/through the latter.
> 
> (2) I thought, we all know who wrote ?The Custom of the Country?, why give the author? ? and then I thought . . . whoops!  (And I?ve read far more Wharton than James.)
> 
> Stuart
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> From: Neverow, Vara S.
> Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 12:53 PM
> To: Stuart N. Clarke ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres
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> Based on the link you provided, the drops seem to be cut crystal. If so, they probably would not be tinted green. Perhaps the green light of the lustre lamp itself is refracted through the clear crystal and thus pools on the mantel.
> 
> Vara
> 
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
> ________________________________
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> Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 4:55:00 AM
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres
> 
> 
> ?As he reached the landing he saw that the ballroom doors were open and all
> the lustres lit.? (ch. XLVI, ?The Custom of the Country? by Henry James)
> 
> ?The pointed fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the
> glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre
> drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets--their harsh
> cries--sharp blades of palm trees--green, too; green needles glittering in
> the sun. But the hard glass drips on to the marble; the pools hover above
> the desert sand; the camels lurch through them; the pools settle on the
> marble; rushes edge them; weeds clog them; here and there a white blossom;
> the frog flops over; at night the stars are set there unbroken. Evening
> comes, and the shadow sweeps the green over the mantelpiece; the ruffled
> surface of ocean. No ships come; the aimless waves sway beneath the empty
> sky. It's night; the needles drip blots of blue. The green's out.?
> 
> If you don?t know what a lustre is, you?ve got no hope of understanding what?s
> going on in ?Green?.  I presume the image is of a lustre on a marble
> mantelpiece, which is where they tended to be placed.  I have been searching
> online for images ? they nearly all appear rather revolting to me ? and I
> can?t seem
> to see any with green fingers (also referred to as "drops"), and I?m not
> sure I can count up to 10:
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> Stuart
> (Day 410)
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> From: "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
> To: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Guest Essay" from the New York Times: "Literary
>    Biography's Man Problem"
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> Greetings,
> 
> Note: The New York Times has done away with the Op-Ed term. Now the contributions are "Guest Essays."
> 
> This guest essay is of interest to Woolfians not because of the focal point of the essay--the problems that emerge when only men write about men's lives and when male biographers are complicit with the subjects they study--but because it brings into focus the various obstacles that a biographer encounters when trying to locate materials, access them, and acquire permissions for publishing them. The author--Ruth Franklin--argues for "shared access" to essential documents to create a more inclusive and insightful culture of researching lives.
> 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/biography-roth-bailey-sexual-assault-metoo-literature.html__;!!KGKeukY!lV_4FGbE9f4ZEFGve4GHKVYcZ9uI6SpBcV0aD8BDUnceplvqQeqhEb5rdFTKzjg-y1k$ 
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> Opinion | What We Lose When Only Men Write About Men - The New York Times<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/biography-roth-bailey-sexual-assault-metoo-literature.html__;!!KGKeukY!lV_4FGbE9f4ZEFGve4GHKVYcZ9uI6SpBcV0aD8BDUnceplvqQeqhEb5rdFTKzjg-y1k$ >
> Ms, Franklin is the author of a biography of the writer Shirley Jackson. In ?The Aspern Papers,? the Henry James novella of literary obsession, a biographer becomes fixated on a stash of ...
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> ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vara
> 
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
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