Sorry for the delay.
Re. edited editions, IA and PG are not making editorial choices here. IA
merely hosts page scans, and PG merely transcribed an early edition. I
don't know what Libproj is and Google turns up nothing. The only ones
here making an editorial choice are SE and Oxford.
I continue to stand by what I've said earlier, which is that I don't
think her choices to have minor differences with what is otherwise
considered run-of-the-mill grammatical ("invisible") punctuation is a
prose style in any meaningful sense, especially since she essentially
drops these "experiments" in (AFAIK) all later books in the series, and
her other punctuation is entirely conventional.
I *could* be convinced about chapter numbers in The Tunnel, however your
article does not convince me. Again, *the latest edition published in
her lifetime* is without numbers. Therefore she seemed to be OK with it.
You link to an article written by some English majors justifying their
degrees by creating straw men that they can point to declare that, well
*really* Richardson wanted it some *other* way, despite the print
editions she herself oversaw. That doesn't convince me - it's pure
conjecture. In fact, the article stresses that Richardson was deeply
involved in all stages of the editorial process, down to hand-correcting
printer's proofs! How could that mean anything *except* that she got
what she wanted in print?
Furthermore, the article stresses that Richardson was constantly
experimenting *and changing her mind*. If she's constantly changing her
mind, across books and across editions, then can it ever be said that
she *really* intended *anything*? If she had lived 10 years longer,
who's to say that she wouldn't have changed her mind *again*? Is it
*really* a legitimate argument to, as this article does, point to a
single letter she wrote to a magazine asking to preserve her
punctuation, and then claim that this position is her one true intention
for all space and time? What if she *just changed her mind after she
wrote that letter?*
Lastly, I disagree with the article's implied thesis that an author's
early manuscript draft is the ultimate "true artistic vision". A book is
the product of both an author *and* an editor (and sometimes even a
printer!). Digging up a handwritten draft and declaring it as the One
True Vision is a slight to the work of an editor and a misunderstanding
of how an artistic vision not only develops over time, but is tempered
by editorial input regardless of what was originally written.
Contrast this to, say, Joyce, her modernist contemporary, who famously
wrote *reams* of correspondence justifying his exact punctuation usage,
spelling, experimentalism, etc. There *was* an "actually correct"
edition of Ulysses (and Finnegans Wake) he had in mind, and any
deviations in print were (understandable) printer's errors. He famously
said "I can justify every line of my book [Finnegans Wake]." He spent
the rest of his life correcting those printer's errors to achieve his
Platonic Ideal editions - *not* waffling back and forth about
punctuation style writ large, or something as fundamental as chapter
numbers.
That's the last I want to write about Richardson. These and future books
in the series should be based on the last editions published in her
lifetime. I roundly disagree with this article, and I think it's wishful
thinking to impose their vision of what they *wish* Richardson wanted,
in the face of what she *actually revised and printed herself.*
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