<div dir="ltr">Forgive multiple emails; some reported glitches in the earlier one.<div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:blue">Dinner plans for IVWS members and interested others:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville"> You are invited—with 30
of Virginia Woolf’s other closest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">friends—to an International Virginia Woolf Society
dinner party at MLA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">in Chicago, the evening of Saturday, January 11th,
at 6:15 in the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">evening. The venue has come highly recommended: a
local legend of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">Chicago: Shaw’s Crab House: <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shawscrabhouse.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEWyeauT1ZlZpc1uJ7Sylhc0cYVyg"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,195)">http://www.shawscrabhouse.com/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">The menu is delightful and varied; we will have 5
entrees to choose</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">from, including such choices as grilled salmon,
Maryland crab cakes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">chicken, vegetarian cous cous, and others.
The meal will include</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">soup, salad, entrée and dessert—as well as wines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville"> And, Shaws is right
near the downtown hotels, at 21 E. Hubbard</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">Street, so we can easily segue over there after the
appetizer of the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">VirginiaWoolf and London’s Colonial Writers panel,
which ends around</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">4:45 or 5. The dinner at Shaw’s is set for
6:15, and we have a room of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">our own, the Oyster Hall of Fame
room.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville"> We will saunter towards
the restaurant after the session, or taxi,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">depending on the weather. The cost per individual
is $55. The IVWS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">will contribute wine (Meanwhile the wineglasses had
flushed yellow and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">flushed crimson; had been emptied; had been
filled), the gratuity, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">subsidize $20 of the individual price for graduate
students. If you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">mentor graduate students, consider inviting them to
the dinner and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">bringing them along. It is always so
refreshing to share our</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">camaraderie with new members or members-to-be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville"> Spaces are filling
quickly, so please email me TODAY because the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">first 30 to make reservations will be the lucky
ones at the party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">First Come, first served! Do sign up quickly
so we can plan ahead</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">with wines and festivities. Contact me at: <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/h/vlfa7zfeyli4/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=vwsociety@gmail.com"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,195)">vwsociety@gmail.com</span></a> with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Baskerville">the subject heading: MLA DINNER</span></p>
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