[Vwoolf] Octavia Wilberforce's letters?

Wed Jul 26 04:55:23 EDT 2023

Dear Shilo

In a letter dated 16/2/64 (unpublished)  to Nancy Nolan, Leonard Woolf mentions the following which may be of interest to Ellen.

"I am however extremely busy over what is really a tiresome business. I am the executor of a Miss Robins who was a famous actress and writer.  She left an enormous quantity of papers, letters, &c (sic) which were in the hands of a co-executor, a Dr Wilberforce, who was gradually going through the stuff. Dr Wilberforce died about two months ago and all the material has had to come to me here. I am now going through it and it takes up a lot of time. "

Best wishes

Anne

Emerita Professor of Political Science and Sociology

An tOllamh Emerita, Eolaíocht Pholaitiúil agus Socheolaíocht

School of Political Science and Sociology, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, University of Galway, IRELAND.

email/ríomphost: Anne.Byrne at universityofgalway.ie

Publication: "The Pleasure of Letters: Dear Mrs Nolan, Yours Sincerely, Leonard Woolf", Virginia Woolf Bulletin, Issue 73, May 2023, 8-20.

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Thank you, Stuart, Vara, Christine, and Molly. I've passed along your recommendations to Ellen. Much appreciated! Shilo On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 7: 20 PM Molly Patricia Hite via Vwoolf <vwoolf@ lists. osu. edu> wrote: Also, see my book
Thank you, Stuart, Vara, Christine, and Molly. I've passed along your recommendations to Ellen.
Much appreciated!

Shilo

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 7:20 PM Molly Patricia Hite via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Also, see my book Woolf’s Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors (Cornell UP, 2017), which places Woolf’s literary theories and practice in contrast with Robins’s and treats on several levels Woolf’s personal
Also, see my book Woolf’s Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors (Cornell UP, 2017), which places Woolf’s literary theories and practice in contrast with Robins’s and treats on several levels Woolf’s personal relationships with Robins and Wilberforce.

—Molly Hite

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On Jul 24, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Christine Froula via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:

Ellen and all, see the Appendix to Herbert Marder's biography The Measure of Life--you'll find your questions answered, I think; Christine On 7/24/2023 1: 54 PM, Shilo McGiff via Vwoolf wrote: Hi, All, I'm forwarding a research question from

Ellen and all, see the Appendix to Herbert Marder's biography The Measure of Life--you'll find your questions answered, I think;

Christine

On 7/24/2023 1:54 PM, Shilo McGiff via Vwoolf wrote:
Hi, All, I'm forwarding a research question from J Ellen Ganior bc I haven't the slightest inkling of an answer. Any help would be appreciated--- all best, Shilo ------ Hi Shilo—For some work I'm doing on actress/playwright Elizabeth
Hi, All,

I'm forwarding a research question from J Ellen Ganior bc I haven't the slightest inkling of an answer. Any help would be appreciated---

all best,
Shilo

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Hi Shilo—For some work I'm doing on actress/playwright Elizabeth Robins, I've run across some references to letters sent to Robins by Dr. Octavia Wilberforce, very possibly about Woolf that, according to Jane Marcus (1978), were not yet allowed to be published.  Do you know if they are now available? They are apparently about Woolf's mental health, but I'm curious as to why Wilberforce was sharing that info with Robins (it appears they were close), so there's a complex history here, it appears.

Any info welcome!

Thank you--
Ellen

J. Ellen Gainor

Professor, Department of Performing and Media Arts

Cornell University
430 College Avenue

Ithaca, NY  14850

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