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“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.”

Or ‘Now I’d better darn my brown stockings,’ ” and it is characteristic that the word she should find to express her critical reservations about “Ulysses” is “underbred.”

Virginia Woolf called it an “illiterate, underbred” book.

“Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water… . It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.”

He had looked to find her one of two things; either flashy and underbred, with every fault an Englishman might consider French, or a nice mixture of craft and servility.