[Vwoolf] Alison Bechdel Edition of To The Lighthouse

Thu May 4 15:47:14 EDT 2023

I'm laughing. Not laughing. OMG.

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:17 AM Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Oh, the poor child in marketing at Penguin who committed this error in the
> email offering me digital access to the Bechdel edition: “Mrs. Dalloway
> said she would buy the flowers herself. ” So begins To the Lighthouse,
> Virginia Woolf’s masterful
> Oh, the poor child in marketing at Penguin who committed this error in the
> email offering me digital access to the Bechdel edition:
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> *“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” So begins To the
> Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s masterful and highly relevant meditation on
> memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life.*
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> Anne
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> *The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf
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> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 3:07 PM Helen Southworth via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi again All, This is, of course, a strategy to sell more books. The
>> Genius and Ink essay collection, with what looked to me like a different
>> cover from the first edition of this recent collection, flagged here last
>> week by Marie-Claire, was
>> Hi again All,
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>> This is, of course, a strategy to sell more books. The *Genius and Ink* essay
>> collection, with what looked to me like a different cover from the first
>> edition of this recent collection, flagged here last week by Marie-Claire,
>> was essentially the same thing.  It allows Penguin to sell more Woolf and
>> Bechdel to promote her *Are You My Mother? *and Patricia Lockwood to get
>> publicity which, as a poet, must be complicated. And if it brings more
>> Woolfians to the table (and those who appreciate the tactile quality of a
>> hard copy), as Leanna's response suggests it might, let's all applaud!
>> (Although I am sympathetic to those who were expecting an original work).
>> In terms of Bechdel's interpretation of the novel, Mrs Ramsay and Lily
>> look a little too similar perhaps ...
>>
>> Helen
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>> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+helen=uoregon.edu at lists.osu.edu> on
>> behalf of Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10:37 AM
>> *To:* 'Leanna Lostoski-Ho' <Leanna.Lostoski-Ho at unh.edu>; 'Amal Zaman' <
>> amalzaman9 at gmail.com>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>;
>> 'Sarah M. Hall' <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Alison Bechdel Edition of To The Lighthouse
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>> Thanks for all this info, everyone (& apologies for saying Intro when I
>> should have looked more carefully and seen Lockwood’s Foreword is the new
>> textual element). The cover looks fun, but I think a screenshot will save
>> me the money that
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>> Thanks for all this info, everyone (& apologies for saying Intro when I
>> should have looked more carefully and seen Lockwood’s Foreword is the new
>> textual element). The cover looks fun, but I think a screenshot will save
>> me the money that can be spent on an actually ‘new’ book!
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>> *From:* Leanna Lostoski-Ho <Leanna.Lostoski-Ho at unh.edu>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 3, 2023 1:28 PM
>> *To:* 'Amal Zaman' <amalzaman9 at gmail.com>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu;
>> mhussey at verizon.net; Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Alison Bechdel Edition of To The Lighthouse
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>> I have a "Deluxe" edition of *Lady Chatterley's Lover. *As a somewhat
>> "youth," the comic strip element is intriguing, and the cover material and
>> rough pages make for a nice tactile reading experience (maybe a "luxe"
>> edition is more apt). And as someone who loves Bechdel and the way *To
>> the Lighthouse *features so prominently in her graphic memoir *Are You
>> My Mother?*, ...I'm very tempted to purchase this edition.
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>> -Leanna
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>> *Leanna Lostoski-Ho, Ph.D.*
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>> University of New Hampshire
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>> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Sarah M. Hall
>> via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 3, 2023 12:56 PM
>> *To:* 'Amal Zaman' <amalzaman9 at gmail.com>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>; mhussey at verizon.net <mhussey at verizon.net>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Alison Bechdel Edition of To The Lighthouse
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>> Deluxe: larger than usual Penguin pb jacket flaps .. . er, that's it, I
>> think Hope the cover appeals to 'the Youth' (do you say that in the US?),
>> without instigating feelings of disappointment similar to Amal's.
>> SarahSarah M. HallExecutive Council,
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>> *Deluxe:*
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>> larger than usual Penguin pb
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>> jacket flaps
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>> ... er, that's it, I think
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>> Hope the cover appeals to 'the Youth' (do you say that in the US?),
>> without instigating feelings of disappointment similar to Amal's.
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>> Sarah
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>> On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 17:13:01 BST, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>> I see it is described as a “deluxe edition”—what does that actually mean?
>> (Just had to look up Patricia Lockwood to find out why she might have been
>> asked to write the intro, too!) From: Vwoolf
>> <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon. net@ lists. osu. edu>
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>> I see it is described as a “deluxe edition”—what does that actually mean?
>> (Just had to look up Patricia Lockwood to find out why she might have been
>> asked to write the intro, too!)
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>> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu> *On
>> Behalf Of *Amal Zaman via Vwoolf
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 3, 2023 11:40 AM
>> *To:* Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
>> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Alison Bechdel Edition of To The Lighthouse
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>> Dear all, Just saw the new edition of TTL is out today on my twitter feed
>> and got excited again by the Bechdel cover illustrations--Here's Bechdel's
>> short blog on her decisions. My brain tricked me for a second and I thought
>> Bechdel
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>> Dear all,
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>> Just saw the new edition of TTL is out today on my twitter feed and got
>> excited again by the Bechdel cover illustrations--Here's Bechdel's short
>> blog
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>> on her decisions. My brain tricked me for a second and I thought Bechdel
>> had created an entire graphic novel out of the text!
>>
>> All best,
>> Amal
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