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[Kllevenback]

Dear Jane et al.—

As I was entrusted with the documents leading up the founding of the Virginia Woolf Society (later the International was added to the name after my term as President was followed by that of Melba Cuddy- Keanu) and processed them, subsequently finding an archival home for the IVWS Collection at the University of Toronto.  

Since then I have given several papers at conferences on this archival collection and the hits history of the Society therein found and even transcribed a taped talk chaired by Eileen Barrett and Merry Pawlowski with Lucio Ruotolo, J.J. Wilson, and one other founding member of the Society, which they called an “oral history.”

During one of the conference I played a portion of one of the cassette tapes (there were three) which are included in the International Virginia Woolf Collection, along with my transcription.

However, these conference papers must have been given before the organization of the Italian Virginia Woolf Society—but after the ones in Britain, France, and Japan.

As Archival Liaison of the International Virginia Woolf Collection, I encourage you to check out the holdings there.

If you need more information, contact me or Bailey Chui, the archivist charged with preserving our collection at bailey.chui at vicu.utoronto.ca.

In all events, be safe….
Karen Levenback






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> On Apr 1, 2022, at 10:29 AM, Jane deGay via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> Quite by chance, I recently discovered the following potted history of the IVWS on the website of the E.J. Pratt Library, Toronto which now holds the IVWS archive:
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> The Society traces its origins to the 1970 MLA Convention, when a seminar entitled “The Uses of the Manuscripts in Virginia Woolf Studies” took place, bringing together 35 scholars. From this initial connection a newsletter, the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, was begun in 1973, and at the 1975 MLA Convention a steering committee was formed that laid the groundwork for the incorporation of the Virginia Woolf Society in 1976. In 1982 the Society began to contribute a portion of its dues to the publication of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. By 1996 about a fourth of Society members were outside the United States, and recognition of this global scholarship led to the name being changed to the International Virginia Woolf Society in December of that year.
> International Virginia Woolf Society (Fonds 51) | Special Collections | Collections | E.J. Pratt Library (utoronto.ca)
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> Best wishes
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> PS I don’t think that the accompanying photo is of Woolfians, but I could be wrong… 😊
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> Yes Sarah, Marielle told me and I apologised for my misreading and misunderstanding.
> And yes, you’re correct, the Italian Society was founded in February 2017, and it would be really interesting to have data going back to 1998 or 1976!!! 
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> What Paula says about her post is interesting as well.
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> Have a nice day!
> Elisa
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> Elisa, Marielle was first to share the Google results; I just made the remark about the Google Doodle. I was wondering why there was such a spike for Jan 2018 and thought it might have been when the Italian VWS was founded, but that was around May 2017, wasn't it?
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> Shame the figures don't go back as far as 1998, when the VWSGB was formed (beginnings of the internet), or 1976, for the IVWS (before widespread computer use). But let's not get into that or we could be here for some time . . .
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> However, a minor point of interest is that about the same number of people access the VWSGB Facebook page from Italy as from the US, a slightly lower number (but not much) than from the UK.
> Sarah
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> Sarah M. Hall
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