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<div>What very sad news indeed. While I didn't know Georgia well, she was a very warm, constant, smiling presence at Woolf Conferences. I remember meeting her at one of the first conferences I attended (perhaps at Smith in 2003, or in London in 2004), and
she was very encouraging to the very nervous and very green newbie that I was. I'm sure she was an amazing teacher. What a loss for her students, and for all of us. Such a shame when a bright light goes out too soon.</div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf [vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Kimberly Coates [kimbec@bgsu.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gill Lowe; Kristin Czarnecki<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Sad News<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Oh my god. I am so deeply saddened. Georgia was a generous scholar and colleague and a beautiful, gentle, warm human being. She was interested, as Gill has said, in everyone. And where
you taught, who you were, what you had or had not done never mattered to her. She was always, always warm and welcoming. I had a wonderful conversation with her after a panel I was on at the Woolf Conference a few years back. Such a loss for we as a community
of Woolf scholars and friends, for her students—as I’ve no doubt she was a talented and generous teacher—and for her family and loved ones.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">I am heartbroken. I had no idea she was ill. I’m teaching
<i>The Waves</i> this week to a terrific group of upper division undergraduates, and I shall be thinking of Georgia as we continue our discussion: “But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers,
interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very close; flesh being gashed and blood spurting, a joint suddenly twisted—beneath all of which appears something very important,
yet remote, to be just held in solitude” (195).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Be well all—</span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 3:00 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Kristin Czarnecki <Kristin_Czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Terrible news. Georgia was such a steady, thoughtful and generous person. She was interested in everyone and wrote so beautifully. I think of her as calm, composed and without egotism. I also recall her dry sense of humour.</p>
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On 21 Mar 2017, at 22:13, Kristin Czarnecki <<a href="mailto:Kristin_Czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu">Kristin_Czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black">It is with deep sorrow that the I share with you the news that Georgia Johnston has passed away after a long battle with cancer. In the Woolf community, she will be remembered as a brilliant, generous scholar
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