[Vwoolf] Word count for voices in The Waves

[Elisa Sparks]

Dear All—
Does anyone know/ have a quotable source on exactly how the text is divided up among the six voices in The Waves, mathematically, I mean.  I have one source that mentions that Bernard is speaking for more than half the novel, but I would like to compare the number of flowers each character cites in relation to their total number of words.  Bernard refers to 6 named flowers for a total of 19 times; Rhoda, on the other hand, is the flower queen of the novel, citing 11 varieties with a total of 21 references to named flowers, twice as many as anyone but Bernard.. I have already started color-coding the Gutenburg text for the various characters, but it will be tedious indeed to try to cut and paste together each voice’s total output.  I am hoping that some other OC Woolf scholar may already have done this.

Thanks,
Elisa
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