[Vwoolf] Vwoolf Digest, Vol 108, Issue 2

Michael Black (PGR) m.black.1 at research.gla.ac.uk
Thu May 6 04:27:34 EDT 2021 

Many thanks to those who kindly sent me a scan of pages from the Feminist Aesthetics book. You are all wonderful.

best,

Michael
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   1. Re: "Green" lustres (Neverow, Vara S.)
   2. "Guest Essay" from the New York Times: "Literary Biography's
      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
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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

From: Neverow, Vara S.
Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] "Green" lustres

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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?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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 bP7F-fBkdQ-Sg10ScwN107jNcWzpXBa9ex4GXoJOaPWc$ >

Stuart
(Day 410)

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Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 16:07:41 +0000
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,

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$
[https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/04/29/opinion/29Franklin1/29Franklin1-facebookJumbo.jpg__;!!KGKeukY!lV_4FGbE9f4ZEFGve4GHKVYcZ9uI6SpBcV0aD8BDUnceplvqQeqhEb5rdFTKOFECyVU$ ]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/biography-roth-bailey-sexual-assault-metoo-literature.html__;!!KGKeukY!lV_4FGbE9f4ZEFGve4GHKVYcZ9uI6SpBcV0aD8BDUnceplvqQeqhEb5rdFTKzjg-y1k$ >
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
neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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