" There were Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities... all spread open. Ever so many books there were; but none to take to Evelyn Whitbread in her nursing home" (Woolf,10).
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities was a book written by Robert Smith Surtees in the early nineteenth century. Surtees himself greatly enjoyed sports, and even wrote in Sporting magazine. His love for sports carried over to his book, which tells the tale of a cockney grocer and his sporting experiences. Clarissa Dalloway would not choose this short of book to bring to Evelyn because it was about being young and fit, which people at nursing homes generally are not. (Edit) Woolf is showing the reader that the elderly characters in this novel will be obsessed with youth and the end of their lives.
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good research
Overall, the biggest concern about your concordances, Molly, is the lack of Woolf -- how can you show her as the creator and crafter of these ideas?
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