[Vwoolf] The importance of models

[Anne Fernald]

Dear Woolfians,

Iknow this has been weighing on you (ha!), so I wanted to share the answer:
the quotation I was dimly remembering and seeking is not Woolf at all: it's
Alice Walker's essay, "Saving the Life That Is Your Own: The Importance of
Models in the Artist's Life," the first essay in *In Search of Our Mothers'
Gardens. *The essay opens quoting a letter from Van Gogh in which he
complains that he is suffering under an absolute lack of models. It's this
essay that ends with a thanks to Virginia Woolf, "Who has saved so many of
us."

I feel relieved to have figured it out!

Happy Birthday to Woolf,

Anne
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On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:51 AM Mitchell Alcrim <mitchoualcrim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Also in Room is the passage in which VW laments that nothing is known of
> women before the 18th century and writes that ‘I have no model in my mind
> to turn about this way and that.’
>
> Mitchell Alcrim
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