“Her favourite reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these nautical metaphors” (77).
Huxley is Thomas Huxley, an English biologist, and Tyndall is John Tyndall, an Irish physicist. Both Huxley and Tyndall were authors of scientific topics, and their works being favorites of Clarissa shows that she enjoys the sciences more than she appears to. It also explains her analyses of everything through a scientific approach. Woolf makes Clarissa’s favorite books as a girl books filled with scientific research because Clarissa is critical of everything that she witnesses, and her enjoyment of the sciences explains that criticism.
Works Cited:
Van Wyhe, John. "John Tyndall." The Victorian Web. 28 Sept. 2002. 28 Sept. 2008 http://www.victorianweb.org/science/tyndall.htm.
Blinderman, Charles. "The Huxley File." The Huxley File. 1998. 28 Sept. 2008 http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/.
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