[Vwoolf] A Woolf sighting in The New Yorker

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings,

In the 5 February 2024 print issue of the New Yorker (online 29 January 2024), Merve Emre has published "Margaret Cavendish's 'Mad' Imagination" (59-63), a review of Francesca Peacock's Pure Wit (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/pure-wit-the-revolutionary-life-of-margaret-cavendish-francesca-peacock-book-review__;!!KGKeukY!2Is5DzUN0eYKqMu_ATvDjBblvu8inCngWGtZvul7ccKJFh4ZHUB5TY7uAHR8njZDj5Sdqg9u4zpdfsvUAiOg6i19rCOo$ ).

Virginia Woolf is mentioned on page 60 where Emre states that, "Virginia Woolf's feverish sentences owe a great deal to Cavendish, an ancestress whom Woolf described as 'noble and Quixotic and high-spirted as well as crack-brained and bird-witted'" (without a reference to the source).

Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.


Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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