<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I’m with you. Trying to be positive. But Wharton is, as the guy points out, a writer of another epoch, as contemporary w/ VW as she might be.<div><br><div>Jeannette Smyth</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:42 PM, ANNE Fernald [Staff/Faculty [A&S]] <<a href="mailto:fernald@fordham.edu">fernald@fordham.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I'm very interested to know about the letter from Stuart. The truth is, this essay bugs me. I don't think Wharton is a huge influence on Woolf and I am surprised at the level of speculation he permits himself.</div><div><br></div><div>But I'm getting grumpy in my dotage,</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Anne</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jeannette Smyth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net" target="_blank">jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you, the truth is mighty and it shall prevail!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Jeannette Smyth</font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>VW ack’d on 18 Nov 1920 the receipt of a copy of “The Age of Innocence” in
an uncollected letter to Messrs Appleton & Co. (letter pub’d in the
“Virginia Woolf Bulletin” (Jan. 2011)). Stephen Barkway discusses VW’s
published comments on Wharton – and Wharton’s irritation – in his accompanying
note.</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net" href="mailto:jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net" target="_blank">Jeannette Smyth</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:51 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] New Yorker essay on VW and
Wharton</div></div></div>
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<div style="font-size:small;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;display:inline">This
is very, very interesting, thank you for the heads up.
<div>I have read every word of the diaries and letters at least three times,
where VW's casual reading and influences are most frequently to be found. I
can’t remembering her mentioning Edith Wharton in any connection, and the author
here notes he cannot find any record of VW’s having read <i>Age of
Innocence.</i> </div>
<div>What interesting <i>ouevres </i>to compare, though. And how interesting
Woolf’s contention that Wharton was not a real American — only Walt Whitman, of
the fluid gender, was.</div>
<div>Thank you again.</div>
<div>Jeannette Smyth</div>
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<div>On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Emily Kopley <<a href="mailto:emily.kopley@gmail.com" target="_blank">emily.kopley@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>This recent essay in <i>The</i> <i>New Yorker </i>makes a good case
for VW's thinking of <i>The Age of Innocence</i> as she composed Mrs. Ramsay's
death:</div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:nowrap"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/virginia-woolfs-anxiety-influence" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/virginia-woolfs-anxiety-influence</a></span></font><br></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:nowrap">Best,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:nowrap">Emily</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Dr. Emily Kopley<br>Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow<br>McGill
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