<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi, Catherine.</SPAN></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; RIGHT: auto; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">To give credit where credit's due--the thread began with J.J. Wilson, one of the founding members of the Virginia Woolf Society who is represented on the oral history preserved at the IVWS Collection at the University of Toronto--and was picked up and generalized by Vara Neverow, former president of the IVWS and current editor of the <EM>VWM</EM>, which began with J.J.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Finally reading these! What a wonderful thread... thanks to whoever started it. <BR><BR>Mrs. Dalloway was my first. I found her at St. Mark's Books in NYC during the fall of 1985. Who was she? Why was she buying flowers? I began to buy myself flowers at the local Korean grocery to keep in my dorm room. I wrote a mash note to an indie rock guy making him guess who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." He couldn't. Then I wrote on the walls of my room in magic marker: "Pity, for the loss of roses." I walked down 10th street in Greenwich Village looking up at the French windows, wishing I could burst them open and take the plunge myself into the early morning air (I had an 8:30 class). I was so disappointed to learn that Clarissa wasn't me. But what a lark to read her as a girl of 18!<BR>
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<DIV class=yiv1100627821gmail_extra>Catherine<BR><BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Catherine W. Hollis, PhD<BR></DIV>Instructor, Fall Program for Freshmen<BR></DIV>U.C. Berkeley Extension<BR></DIV>Berkeley, CA 94720<BR></DIV><A href="mailto:hollisc@berkeley.edu" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:hollisc@berkeley.edu">hollisc@berkeley.edu</A><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Vwoolf mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" ymailto="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A><BR><A href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target=_blank>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>