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<div>I do not want to diminish the importance and influence of Shari Benstock’s contributions to the world of scholarship on modernist women writers. I grieve for the loss of Shari and have received a beautiful formal remembrance of her written by Murray Beja.
I will be including it in the current <i>Virginia Woolf Miscellany. </i>Please do feel free to send me other informal remembrances of Shari to share with other readers. </div>
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<div>The second and all-too-recent posting on the VW listserv notifying us of Jane Marcus’s passing cuts even deeper. Jane Marcus was, without a doubt, a visionary and an inspiration and, in terms of her own physical presence, almost a force of nature. She
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<div>I would also very much like to garner permission from those of you who have already posted remembrances on the VW Listserve or on Facebook so that I can publish them (or segments of them) in the issue.</div>
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<div>Above and beyond the postings on the VW listserv and Facebook, I am also requesting that you send me more formal remembrances and recollections of Jane so that I can integrate them either into this special section or into a special issue. She deserves
this recognition for all that she did to radically transform the perception of Virginia Woolf’s life and work. </div>
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<div>Thank you so much.</div>
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<div>In deep sadness,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Diane Gillespie <<a href="mailto:gillespie@pullman.com">gillespie@pullman.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:12 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Laurie Reiche <<a href="mailto:lauriereiche@gmail.com">lauriereiche@gmail.com</a>>, U V <<a href="mailto:representationmatters@gmail.com">representationmatters@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Among the many eloquent and heartfelt tributes, you've said it best.</font></div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="lauriereiche@gmail.com" href="mailto:lauriereiche@gmail.com">
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 29, 2015 1:28 AM</div>
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<div>A poem that sprang to mind….Laurie</div>
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<div><b>Meditation in Tavistock Square </b></div>
<div><b>in Front of the Gan Statue </b><b>On the Deaths </b></div>
<div><b>Of Shari Benstock & Jane Marcus</b></div>
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<div>Me and Ghandi and the sky, our laps full of treasures, mine</div>
<div>with a notebook full of words, his with the offerings </div>
<div>of a god: dried roses once fresh, leaves</div>
<div>once alive.</div>
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<div>How quickly life passes.</div>
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<div>In two days two brilliant scholars died, </div>
<div>Feminists of the Second Wave, </div>
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<div>who spread their essences like molten silver </div>
<div>across the shore of our lives: </div>
<div>Shari Benstock and Jane Marcus.</div>
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<div>In my imagination I already see them </div>
<div>as statues in a park, their laps full of roses </div>
<div>and there's a plaque that says: </div>
<div>"Read Their Books!" </div>
<div>Yes, perhaps a tactless order, a pressing command </div>
<div>because our lives are fleeting and one must take a stand for </div>
<div>cut roses perish in less than a day but words--</div>
<div>well, words we know are the engraved, </div>
<div>perpetually living in our eyes and minds, </div>
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<div><i style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">(Laurie Lessen Reiche- May 29, 2015)</i></div>
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<div>On May 29, 2015, at 8:35 AM, U V <<a href="mailto:representationmatters@gmail.com">representationmatters@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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And she coined "the Virginia Woolf Soap Operas"! She will be missed so much.</div>
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Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 00:26:34 -0400<br>
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<div>Devastating. Jane Marcus was a force to be reckoned with. And as someone once said of Jane Ellen Harrison, another of our intellectual "unmet" mentors and friends...she was a giant upon whose shoulders we all stand. Jane Marcus asked the important questions.
Go back. Re-read her. All of it. There are gems to be mined there that will guide you, test you, frustrate you, but demand that you rethink possible. Her work will remain generative, bold, and meaningful to our own questions and research as we stay up late
reading and writing forgetful of the tea kettle on the stove ...but somehow certain that we're on to something, something that matters. </div>
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