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<DIV>See VW Letters #264, 270, 271.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=smhall123@yahoo.co.uk
href="mailto:smhall123@yahoo.co.uk">Sarah M. Hall</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mhussey@verizon.net
href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net">Mark Hussey</A> ; <A
title=lhankins@cornellcollege.edu
href="mailto:lhankins@cornellcollege.edu">'Leslie Hankins'</A> ; <A
title=vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A>
; <A title=ivwsociety@gmail.com
href="mailto:ivwsociety@gmail.com">'International Virginia Woolf Society'</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] curiouser and curiouser: the desk(s) of
VW</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17499><SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17455>Dear All,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_18225><SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17455><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_18222><SPAN
id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17455>I've contacted Priya Parmar to ask about the
source for the table 'incident' and she says:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_15964>The incident with the table is
definitely rooted in historical fact. It was valuable and she did ask
Violet for it and appalled her family. I think it comes from a letter
from Vanessa Bell. It may be mentioned in a letter of Virginia's as
well. I do not think it pops up in Lytton Strachey's
correspondence. I wish I had my notes! The dates I know are
accurate.</DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17513>I am not sure if that helps! I
have finally stored my research notes in America and feel a bit bereft that I
do not have them to hand! </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17517 dir=ltr>Obviously in a novel, the
author will explore and speculate on people's emotions ('particular favourite',
'thundered in'), which can lead to difficulties if readers take it at face
value. Also, when the (non-Woolfian) reader passes on their interpretation of
the events, they add their own layer of emotion ('predatory', 'demanding',
'heirloom', 'horribly embarrassed'). In fact, it has been filtered through three
people by the time it gets to us; not that I am questioning your interpretation
of your colleague's words, Leslie. <BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_18133 dir=ltr>But you're right, Mark. We
can't help readers misinterpreting fiction as fact; any more than we can help
people believing uncorroborated 'facts' they read in a non-fiction book or a
newspaper, which it seems to me are more dangerous and inexcusable.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17717 dir=ltr>All the best,</DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17594 dir=ltr> </DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17592 dir=ltr>Sarah</DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17519 dir=ltr> </DIV>
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<FONT id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17378 size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Mark Hussey
<mhussey@verizon.net><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> 'Leslie Hankins'
<lhankins@cornellcollege.edu>; vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu;
'International Virginia Woolf Society' <ivwsociety@gmail.com>
<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, 29 August
2015, 22:06<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re:
[Vwoolf] curiouser and curiouser: the desk(s) of VW<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17429 class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>Perhaps
we need to institute a fact checking website to counter the endless flow of
misinformation coming from novelists and tv series writers, film-makers and
others who prefer fictional versions of VW et al. to anything based on the
historical record!</DIV>
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id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17588 style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Vwoolf
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Leslie Hankins<BR clear=none><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 29, 2015 4:57
PM<BR clear=none><B>To:</B> vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu; International
Virginia Woolf Society<BR clear=none><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] curiouser and
curiouser: the desk(s) of VW</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17442 class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>Hello
again! The desk plot thickens. A colleague at dinner (not a VW
scholar) told me she had read somewhere that VW was really very predatory and
rude about asking for and demanding a desk from a friend, a desk that was an
heirloom, etc. She said that Vanessa had been horribly embarrassed by
the whole thing, etc, etc. </DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>I felt at a loss because it didn't sound
familiar, at least not the outrage of it all.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>Finally she tracked it down to the novel
Vanessa & Her Sister by Parmar. </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17616 class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>The
passage in the novel (set up as a journal entry) is rather harsh:</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17622 class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>Saturday
5 May 1906--46 Gordon Square (end of a long day)</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17628
class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>"Virginia asked Violet for a table. Such an
innocuous sentence, but what a rumpus it has caused. It is apparently a
particular favourite of Violet's and a valuable antique to boot.
Virginia just thundered in to tea at Violet's one afternoon and told her that
she would quite like to have it. Mother would be so distressed.
Thoby and Adrian are appalled--"One simply does not go about asking for other
people's things, Ginia!"--and I am now resigned. I was unsettled at
first, wary as I am for any signs of imbalance or incongruity in Virginia, but
seeing that it was just one of her peculiar moments of directness at work, I
relaxed. Violet was an utter dear and had the table delivered the next
day. Virginia is planning to have two of the legs sawn off, which makes
the gift quite irreversible.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17634
class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal> And--Virginia,
after listening to a stinging lecture from Thobs, has written twice today,
pestering poor Violet for the price of the table." (87)</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1441093293039_17640 class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>I've
looked at VW's letters to Violet (Vol 1 270, [May 1906] p 225ff but
haven't found anything about Vanessa's reaction. Does anyone have any
more information about this? I've hardly looked at Patmar's book but my
colleague noted that it made VW out to be rather demonic.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>I'll keep looking but it does seem
curious.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>leslie</DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal>-- </DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal><SPAN>Leslie Kathleen Hankins</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal><SPAN>Professor</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal><SPAN>Department of English & Creative
Writing</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv9780785571MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"Moreover,
however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction, &
gradually we become impatient of their weakness & diffuseness, of their
compromises & evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make for
themselves, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity &
truth of fiction." </SPAN></I><SPAN
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Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a
Book?"</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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