<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Helvetica;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Helvetica;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello. I have been at work on a biography of Clive Bell, with Anne Olivier Bell’s encouragement, since 2014. Mr Beechey did indeed several times announce his intention to write the biography and was working on it in the 1990s, but I would not have taken on what will undoubtedly be a fairly large project without knowing certainly that I would not be duplicating anyone else’s efforts. After discussing the biography with Mrs Bell, other members of her family, as well as with Frances Spalding, Andrew McNeillie and others, I am cracking on!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would be happy to discuss any details or hear any suggestions off-list from anyone interested. I do not yet have a projected date for the book as it is only in the last month or so that I have been able to clear my desk of other projects and begin to focus on it (while teaching full-time, editing a journal, giving papers at conferences etc… the mulberry tree of academic life!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mark Hussey, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Distinguished Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>English Department<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Pace University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Room 1511, 41 Park Row<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>New York NY 10038<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah M. Hall<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 16, 2015 7:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> Adolphe Haberer; Woolf List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Clive Bell: a Biography<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6267"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The odd thing about this is the refs. Beechey quotes his own book about Clive Bell, dated 2000, which I'm pretty sure was never published, and certainly wasn't by that date. I spoke to John Murray in 2003/4 because I wanted it for some research, and was told that although it had been under contract for years it had never been delivered. There's a very cheesed-off 'review' on Amazon by someone who ordered the book from them but never received it, and (rightly, it seems) doubts its existence.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6838"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6708"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Now, as then, I think there should be a CB biography. Whatever we think of him personally, he was an important Bloomsbury figure, and all the movers and shakers of Bloomsbury have their own biog -- except him. (I'm a great fan of Saxon, but couldn't class him as an influential Bloomsbury figure.)<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6830"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6829"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>If anyone knows James Beechey, please encourage him to write the book or pass his research to someone else to write it. Anyone?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6172"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6171"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6170"><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Adolphe Haberer <<a href="mailto:Adolphe.Haberer@univ-lyon2.fr">Adolphe.Haberer@univ-lyon2.fr</a>><br><b>To:</b> Woolf List <<a href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 16 September 2015, 8:04<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Clive Bell: a Biography</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6239"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Today the "Life of the Day" of the Oxford DNB is about Clive Bell. It is signed by James Beechey<br><br><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442398662137_6241">http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html</a><br><br>Best wishes to all<br>Ado<br><br>====================<br>Adolphe Haberer<br>Professeur émérite à l'Université Lumière-Lyon 2<br>1 route de Saint-Antoine<br>69380 Chazay d'Azergues<br>33 (0)4 78 43 65 24<br>33 (0)6 63 57 95 91<br><a href="mailto:adolphe.haberer@univ-lyon2.fr">adolphe.haberer@univ-lyon2.fr</a><br><a href="mailto:ado@haberer.fr">ado@haberer.fr</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>