[Vwoolf] Vwoolf Digest, Vol 108, Issue 3

Wed May 5 15:20:59 EDT 2021

Dear all,

I wonder if anyone has a personal copy of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf. I believe there is a passing reference to William Blake in this book. If anyone has a copy and would be willing to email a scan of that page, I will repay them in attempting the love of diligent citations.

many thanks,

Michael Black
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Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 17:09:04 +0000
From: Palvasha von Hassell <p_v_hassell at t-online.de>
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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

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> From: "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
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> Beautiful example!
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> 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
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> (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:
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> 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
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> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres
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>
> ?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
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> Stuart
> (Day 410)
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> From: "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
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> Subject: [Vwoolf] "Guest Essay" from the New York Times: "Literary
>    Biography's Man Problem"
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> Greetings,
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> Note: The New York Times has done away with the Op-Ed term. Now the contributions are "Guest Essays."
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> 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
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> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 10:56:20 +0100
From: "Stuart N. Clarke" <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
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?Horace Annesley Vachell is one of those veteran writers who have preferred to write good entertaining stories for the ordinary reader rather than dabble vaguely in precious obscurities for the delight of Bloomsbury.  He must surely be represented on the shelves of every public and ?circulating? library in the country.?
(BROOK, Donald, "Writers' Gallery: Biographical Sketches of Prominent British Writers, and their Views on Reconstruction" (London: Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1945 2nd imp. (1944), p. 146)

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Subject: [Vwoolf] A throwaway ref.
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End of ch. 4 of ?A Room?:

?And yet, I continued, approaching the bookcase again, where shall I find that elaborate study of the psychology of women by a woman? If through their incapacity to play football women are not going to be allowed to practise medicine--
?Happily my thoughts were now given another turn.?

The mention of football is actually significant:

?Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. was one of the earliest known women's association football teams in England. The team remained in existence for over 48 years, from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759, drawing 46, and losing 28. During its early years, matches attracted anywhere from 4,000 to over 50,000 spectators per match. ... The team faced strong opposition by the Football Association (FA), who banned ... women from using fields and stadiums controlled by FA-affiliated clubs for 50 years (the rule was finally repealed in 1971).?

?The resolution passed [on 5/Dec/21] by the FA's Consultative Committee read: 5. Women's Football Matches. The following Resolution was adopted: Complaints having been made as to football being played by women, Council felt impelled to express the strong opinion that the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged. ...?

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C__;!!KGKeukY!jGUbisRx93KWNJuTN9YcaxjUxjQIiE6HcTrRtbpSsntga7rTP50egOUvB2FkdHtFEq4$ .

VW remarked on women?s football in particular in ch. 3 of ?Three Guineas? (she clipped the press cutting from the Daily Herald of 15 August 1936), quoting:

?Official football circles here [Wellingborough, Northants] regard with anxiety the growing popularity of girl's football. A secret meeting of the Northants Football Association's consultative committee was held here last night to discuss the playing of a girl's match on the Peterborough ground. Members of the Committee are reticent . . . One member, however, said today: 'The Northants Football Association is to forbid women's football. This popularity of girls' football comes when many men's clubs in the country are in a parlous state through lack of support. Another serious aspect is the possibility of grave injury to women players.??

Stuart

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