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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the discussion, Stuart and Jean! It’s good to know that people are reading
<i>Virginia Woolf and Heritage.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know that the word ‘widow’ sounds a bit odd, and I thought about this myself when copy-editing Jean’s piece. However, definition 12 of the OED notes that it can be applied to a man and the most recent example given is from 2003 (<span style="font-variant:small-caps">S.
Torres Webbe</span> <i><a href="javascript:void(0)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Lost & Found</span></a></i> viii. 127 ‘He's a widow you know. He probably wants to take you on a date.’). I could have taken this up with Jean and suggested
the more usual ‘widower’, but I was working on the editorial principle of preserving the integrity of what a contributor had written, and anyway, I quite liked the queer implications of the word.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s nice that the book is being discussed – or at least one tiny word in it!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Virginia Woolf and Heritage: Selected Papers from the 26<sup>th</sup> Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Edited by Jane de Gay, Tom Breckin and Anne Reus
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+j.degay=leedstrinity.ac.uk@lists.osu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jean Mills<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 July 2017 19:16<br>
<b>To:</b> Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Doct(o)ress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hahaha! thanks, Stuart. Well, you know what they say in (American) publishing, "what one source calls a widow, another calls an orphan" (Wikipedia)??? Thanks for the good catches; wish you were at my beck and call during the proofing stage,
because as we all know: "the only thing worse than not being published, is being published" (Dorothy 'hiccup' Parker). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And Jane did indeed "put it about"! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Much love,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">“It is a serious inconvenience that neither form ... has been brought into any but facetious use as a prefixed title ... See FEMININE DESIGNATIONS.” (H. W. FOWLER, “A Dictionary
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">However, I’m not sure I’m always able to keep up with developments. For instance, yesterday I was reading “Virginia Woolf and Heritage: Selected Papers from the Twenty-sixth Annual
International Conference on Virginia Woolf" [at Leeds Trinity University - 16-19 June 2016], with my animal companion (</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">✔</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">[Well, Jane Marcus certainly put it about!]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On second thoughts, perhaps Americans don’t (any longer?) use the word “widower”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888">Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The Department of English<br>
John Jay College/CUNY<br>
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in
<i>Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War </i>(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism
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