tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5819013085571818459..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Stevie Smith: Lady 'Rogue' SingletonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33680572628482320102010-05-19T04:31:12.664-07:002010-05-19T04:31:12.664-07:00Original... and inimitable.
The Stein suggestion ...Original... and inimitable.<br /><br />The Stein suggestion is worth pondering, Bill, though I have always had the impression Stevie was in advance of rather than following the avant-garde. Had she known more of it perhaps there might have been less of that original in her?<br /><br />Now and then I hear in the headlong run-on sentences of Henry Green as well a note that sounds a bit like a diluted echo of Beckett or even, if one strains, of Stein.<br /><br />Possibly in Green's as in Smith's case, something in the modern air, a catalyst, become common and generic?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22565327420284573842010-05-19T01:17:40.293-07:002010-05-19T01:17:40.293-07:00A true original, Stevie, and perhaps the only Engl...A true original, Stevie, and perhaps the only English novelist to learn from Gertie Stein?billymillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384818298267240803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45943946948676227052010-05-18T07:26:22.760-07:002010-05-18T07:26:22.760-07:00The "original" of Henry may have been on...The "original" of Henry may have been one of Stevie's beaus, Freddy (Frederick "Eric" Armitage).<br /><br />At one point he proposed, but she said no, because she feared being suffocated by conventional existence in a suburb. Like, say, Edmonton.<br /><br />She lived most of her life with her spinster aunt Margaret Spear in North London, and was bowled over when the older woman died at 96.<br /><br />She made a point of saying that in response to anyone who assumed she knew nothing about emotions because she had never married, she wanted that "put right" after her death.<br /><br />"I loved my aunt."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com