His mother was a vulgar woman, daughter of a sutler, and his father was a “little smart man” who got the wound that killed him in a quarrel over a goose.—Virginia Woolf, on Laurence Sterne (Oh, Woolf when class enters the picture—alas.)
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Yeah, isn’t it?
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And the word "sutler"
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Dictionary: “Vulgar”—lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined. **Levi Stahl objects to the word “vulgar”—what does *he* think it means?
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Also, dated meaning = “characteristic of or belonging to the masses.” V Woolf was b. in 1882, you can’t be confident that she means whatever it is you think she means without analysis. In any case an overreaction
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