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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thank you for sending this. It was indeed a very enjoyable and interesting event. I should point out, though, that VW kept up the fiction in her letters to Violet D that Thoby was getting better only for about 4 weeks, not 6 months!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>mh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Linda Camarasana [mailto:camarasana@mindspring.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Mark Hussey'; vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Cc:</b> Kerin McElhenny<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vwoolf] Paris Press reissue of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Unfortunately, I was unable to attend last night’s event, but I wanted share comments by one of my graduate students at SUNY Old Westbury (with her permission) who did attend:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am so glad that I made the effort to attend this presentation. This was a mixed medical and literary panel. Jan Freeman is the founder and director or Paris Press which specializes in publishing women writers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The panel provided touching insights and hilarious observations of a sometimes somber subject. They read from the texts of VW and Julia Stephen, from the mother-nurse and her daughter-patient dual perspectives and the point was made that VW gained an added sensitivity about life from her illness. Mark Hussey supplied interesting discussion of how VW maintained the fiction that her brother Thoby lived about 6 months beyond his death in her correspondence to Violet Dickinson. She was sensitive to the fact that Violet also had typhoid and VW did not want her to be alarmed at Thoby's fate she provided elaborate details of Thoby's life after death. (I know that you know this, I found it fascinating and an indicator of Virginia's heart.) There was also a woman on the panel, Judith Kelman, who runs a workshop at Memorial Sloan Kettering were patients and professional writers get together to write their stories from the patients’ unique perspective of leaving the shores of health and venturing into the waters of illness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would be remiss not to mention the comments of Dr. Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins. She is a poet and a physician and a professor of OB/GYN at Columbia. She told wonderful, heartwarming stories of the patients she encountered early in her clinical practice. I was moved by these stories and they resonated with me because of my dear mother's recent difficulties facing old age. She was not a Woolf scholar, as she pointed out, but she brought a great humanity to the medical practice that Julia Stephen reflected in her Notes From Sick Rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Loved this panel, thank you so much for passing on the email because it is because of you I understood all VW references TTLH, MD, BTA, and The Waves. This was a very interesting evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kerin McElhenny<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Linda Camarasana</span></i><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>Assistant Professor, English Department<br>Coordinator, M.A.T./M.S. Programs in English <br>New Academic Building 3017<br>SUNY College at Old Westbury <br>Old Westbury, NY 11568<br></span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:camarasana@mindspring.com"><i><span style='text-decoration:none'>camarasana@mindspring.com</span></i></a> </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+camarasana=mindspring.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf-bounces+camarasana=mindspring.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+camarasana=mindspring.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces+camarasana=mindspring.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Hussey<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Paris Press reissue of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To anyone near enough to come (& in hopes you are recovered from the effects of Hurricane Sandy), I attach an announcement of an open event this coming Weds. at Columbia Law School celebrating the reissue of <i>On Being Ill</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best wishes, Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></span></div></div></body></html>