Comments on: Why we have them I can’t think http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/ Independent publishers of neglected and translated classics; ranters extraordinaire. www.hesperuspress.com; www.myspace.com/hesperuspress Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mrs. Woolf and the Servants hits the States « Blogging Woolf http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-1493 Mrs. Woolf and the Servants hits the States « Blogging Woolf Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:20:33 +0000 http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-1493 [...] travel back in time and read more about the British edition that came out a year ago. Read a posting on the Hesperus Press blog. Click on The Independent’s review of the book. Get the skinny from [...] [...] travel back in time and read more about the British edition that came out a year ago. Read a posting on the Hesperus Press blog. Click on The Independent’s review of the book. Get the skinny from [...]

]]> By: hesperuspress http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-531 hesperuspress Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:25:12 +0000 http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-531 I think you're onto something very interesting there, Mark. I've actually just been re-reading our recent Rosamond Lehmann title 'The Gipsy's Baby' for a forthcoming feature on this here blog, and the title story of the collection is, among other things, a very subtle and nuanced exploration of class divisions. Lehmann evokes, through her narrator, the same terror of the working classes expressed so often by Woolf, and yet here again was an educated woman who championed the underdog in many other respects. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. More of that in a subsequent post. E x I think you’re onto something very interesting there, Mark. I’ve actually just been re-reading our recent Rosamond Lehmann title ‘The Gipsy’s Baby’ for a forthcoming feature on this here blog, and the title story of the collection is, among other things, a very subtle and nuanced exploration of class divisions. Lehmann evokes, through her narrator, the same terror of the working classes expressed so often by Woolf, and yet here again was an educated woman who championed the underdog in many other respects.

Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself. More of that in a subsequent post.

E x

]]> By: Mark http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-526 Mark Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:09:59 +0000 http://hesperuspress.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/why-we-have-them-i-cant-think/#comment-526 Thanks for bringing Light’s "Mrs Woolf and the Servants" to my attention Ellie. It had inexplicably passed me by (well, not entirely inexplicably: my LRB subscription has recently run out!) I think moral blindspots are fascinating. And some great writers have had some very dodgy politics/views in their time! Modernism and fascism cosied-up more often than we like to remember, too. I think I might write something about this soon, but I won't clog up your comments box with my notes and unformed thoughts right now ... To The Lighthouse is always overdue a re-read. Take the rest of the week off, and report back to us all on Monday! Thanks for bringing Light’s “Mrs Woolf and the Servants” to my attention Ellie. It had inexplicably passed me by (well, not entirely inexplicably: my LRB subscription has recently run out!)

I think moral blindspots are fascinating. And some great writers have had some very dodgy politics/views in their time! Modernism and fascism cosied-up more often than we like to remember, too. I think I might write something about this soon, but I won’t clog up your comments box with my notes and unformed thoughts right now …

To The Lighthouse is always overdue a re-read. Take the rest of the week off, and report back to us all on Monday!

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