[Vwoolf] Fw: Phyllis Rose on New "Edition" of VW/VSW Letters

[Stuart N. Clarke]

It’s really not worth the effort to take this new “edition” textually seriously, but I did do a bit of work on it.  E.g. see
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/__;!!KGKeukY!j-JwG-_orUSnXkTgIF8OQznUtoIL635UU9qp-hWf03phsOGmhERmj8uyb5946LIb5ko$ 

Also: "main texts ended up being: the Virago [US] 1992 letters from Vita to Virginia; the Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf Selected Diaries and Selected Letters, and the letters of Vita to her husband Harold, edited by their son Nigel Nicolson."

Stuart



From: Hagen, Benjamin D via Vwoolf 
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 1:12 PM
To: Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: [Vwoolf] Phyllis Rose on New "Edition" of VW/VSW Letters

Dear Woolfians,

 

(Apologies if this already came through the listserv.) Though the full review is behind a paywall, Phyllis Rose has reviewed Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (intro by Alison Bechdel) for the The New York Review of Books (appears in the 10 March 2022 issue). Here is the link, should you have a subscription (or a way to access someone else’s): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/03/10/i-have-quite-lost-my-heart-virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west/__;!!KGKeukY!j-JwG-_orUSnXkTgIF8OQznUtoIL635UU9qp-hWf03phsOGmhERmj8uyb594wDrU64Y$ . If you subscribe to print issues, you probably already received your copy. (A colleague of mine here in South Dakota told me about the piece after receiving his newest issue.)

 

Relevant, perhaps, to discourse on the Woolf List about recent “editions” of Woolf’s work, the available snippet of Rose’s review ends:

 

And who exactly is telling the story? We do not know, as no editor is cited on the title page. Buried on the copyright page we find “selection by Lily Lindon,” but Alison Bechdel’s introduction sheds no light on how this selection was made or what it offers that cannot be found in the letters as masterfully edited in 1985 by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska.

 

Best,

Ben

–

Benjamin D. Hagen, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Associate Professor | Dept of English | University of South Dakota

Author | The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence

Editor | Woolf Studies Annual

President | International Virginia Woolf Society

–

I acknowledge that the University of South Dakota is on indigenous territory. This land is the traditional territory of Dakota, Lakota, Umonhon, Ponca, Otoe, and Ioway nations.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Vwoolf mailing list
Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/attachments/20220228/dc073c2c/attachment.html>