[lit-ideas] The Woolf and the Ouse
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:26:23 EDT
In a message dated 9/27/2004 12:25:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
a wry smiler--and
we shared what Virginia Wolfe once called a "squat bottle," though it may in
fact have been slenderer than that.
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Oddly, it's spelled 'Woolf'. I understand it was Anglo-Jewish, hence the
meaning -- Anglo-Jewish surnames _have_ meanings, usually animals, or bits of
nature.
I am reading a book on the English Channel (_The English Channel_ by Nigel
Calder), and mentions Newhaven, which I understand is the mouth of the Ouse,
where Virginia Woolf threw herself to commit suicide. I wonder where exactly
her corpse was found. I understand her cottage was not far from the Channel,
so
perhaps the waters carried the corpse downstream to it?
There are some good references in _The Hours_ -- novel and script -- but I
don't have them with me right now.
Cheers,
JL
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