[Vwoolf] A Woolf sighting…

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

In the 1970s my parents used to live in Seaford on the Sussex coast. To get to London on the train you had to change at Lewes (perhaps you still do). I used to see Quentin Bell on the platform there, waiting for the train to Brighton I think, as he had a post at Sussex University. I never had the nerve to open a conversation with him, although we had talked at a cheese-and-wine party at Leeds University. But I think I blotted my copy book that time by describing some piece of monstrous modernity as "progress," hoping he would catch the note of irony. Alas, he did not.

If you want to chase up further writerly connections between Lewes and bonfire night, see my article: "Joseph Conrad's Guys and Dolls (and Scarecrows and Dummies)," The Conradian vol 48, no 1, 40-49).

Jeremy H


Professor Emeritus
Department of Language and Literature
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway



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Greetings, This BBC article, "The Quaint English Town Where the US' Future Was Planned," is about Lewes, Thomas Paine, Bonfire Night, and many other things. It includes references to Virginia Woolf, Carrington, and Julian Bell, Quentin
Greetings,
This BBC article, "The Quaint English Town Where the US' Future Was Planned," is
about Lewes, Thomas Paine, Bonfire Night, and many other things. It includes references to Virginia Woolf, Carrington, and Julian Bell, Quentin Bell's son:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241118-the-quaint-english-town-where-the-us-future-was-planned__;!!KGKeukY!39iRCtXWjeJBg5UFcbuXx1O9-tPFC5bnZ2N5YmknoRX1Bd4A3Dv_988L_VZRCPHvCzzIDF0qP7nhYppoRxHbqDZfcRnLKH4KIqFTnLlr864$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241118-the-quaint-english-town-where-the-us-future-was-planned__;!!KGKeukY!wcT4-cKSUQsm2BP137jLRiiYCft4roHlSUOnPCTzyP8NmILo-j4MB7W8qdAoV1nsPxgN5B4Mnd5b1U-23D0S0uFT3vKP$>
Best,
Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugusett and Quinnepiac peoples.
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