[Vwoolf] Woolf & tramping girls
Sarah M. Hall
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Thu Feb 27 15:26:16 EST 2025
Thanks, Anne and Jeremy, what a lovely passage, reminiscent of summer. With your help I've pinpointed this to 31 July (D3 104), a composite entry with several subheadings: these lines are under 'Wandervögeln', which was apparently a German youth movement (trans. as 'migratory birds'). The OED online says:
The earliest known use of the noun Wandervogel [singular] is in the 1920s.
OED's earliest evidence for Wandervogel is from 1928, in the writing of D. H. Lawrence, writer.
But of course VW's use of the plural beats this by two years. And presumably the term was in common use in Germany long before either of them.
Sarah
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On Thursday, 27 February 2025 at 16:37:44 GMT, Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
“Two resolute, sunburnt, dusty girls in jerseys and short skirts, with packs on their backs, city clerks, or secretaries, tramping along the road in the hot sunshine at Ripe. My instinct at once throws up a screen, which condemns them: - think“Two resolute, sunburnt, dusty girls in jerseys and short skirts, with packs on their backs, city clerks, or secretaries, tramping along the road in the hot sunshine at Ripe. My instinct at once throws up a screen, which condemns them: - think them in every way angular, awkward and self. assertive. But all this is a great mistake. These screens shut me out. Have no screens, for screens are made out of our own in-tegument; and get at the thing itself, which has nothing whatever in common with a screen. The screen-making habit, though, is so universal that probably it preserves our sanity. If we had not this device for shutting people off from our sympathies we might perhaps dissolve utterly; separateness would be impossible. But the screens are in the excess; not the sympathy.”— 1926
Just as terrific as I remembered.
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no> wrote:
A Writer's Diary p. 97,
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Emne: [Vwoolf] Woolf & tramping girls Good morning, Woolfians, I have a recollection of a diary entry (or perhaps a letter) where Woolf encounters a couple young women tramping with rucksacks, but I can’t find it nor can I even figure out how it would be indexed. Does this ringGood morning, Woolfians,
I have a recollection of a diary entry (or perhaps a letter) where Woolf encounters a couple young women tramping with rucksacks, but I can’t find it nor can I even figure out how it would be indexed.
Does this ring a bell? Can you point me in the right direction?
Thank you,
Anne
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