![]() ![]() ![]() He is applying the standards of today to those of yesterday, just as he might condemn Jane Austen for snobbishness because she implies that no gentleman should be seen trying to make money.īy selective quotation he can of course make Vita and Harold appear snobs even by Edwardian usages. What is considered snobbish in the 1990s was not in the 1920s. He starts his review with the admission that we are “not to worry” about the charge of snobbishness as “most of it is too far away to be hurtful,” but from then onwards he forgets this wise caution. I invite him to define more exactly what he means by that. But he has read it with an initial bias, perhaps derived from the BBC’s dramatisation of Portrait of a Marriage, that both were unutterable snobs. ![]() Robert Craft’s review of my parents’ letters, Vita and Harold, is generous in one respect: he has read the book. ![]()
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