<div dir="ltr"><div>Just to say I have found this common behavior in a number of fan groups online (whether it be face-book, or a webring, or some other social media venue). Sometimes the group leader shows some patience and merely censors your email after that, or you can't post, but you have impugned her book.  Also the kind of things done in Woolf's name are common elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>A parallel:  a significant brouhaha going on in the Bronte Society because Nick Holland, author of In Search of Bronte, protested what is being done 'in the name" of Emily Bronte; he is being attacked by the celebrity type hired to "celebrate" the events.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is his protest (among other things they are removing genuine artifacts of the Brontes for recreated time capsules)<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">:</span></div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="http://www.annebronte.org/2017/12/17/emily-bronte-lily-cole-and-the-shame-of-the-bronte-society/" rel="nofollow">http://www.annebronte.org/2017/12/17/emily-bronte-lily-cole-and-the-shame-of-the-bronte-society/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As you might expect, he is now attacked by Lily Cole for being a snob:</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/lily-cole-bronte-society-resignation-nick-holland" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/lily-cole-bronte-society-resignation-nick-Holland</a></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ellen Moody<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Paula Maggio via Vwoolf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496489" dir="ltr">After reading the New York Times article about the Facebook group and upcoming book titled What Would Virginia Woolf Do?, I did some looking and wrote a blog post about it. I am so dismayed at the way the writer exploits Woolf's name, as well as her death. Here's the link: <a id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496516" style="color:rgb(25,106,212);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" href="https://wp.me/p5Yfi-3kT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://wp.me/p5Yfi-3kT</a>.</div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496489" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496489" dir="ltr">After my blog post went live, the group's creator and book's author kicked me out of her Facebook group. I guess she didn't like what I had to say.<br></div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496517"></div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496518"> </div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496519"><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496520">Paula Maggio</div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_496521" dir="ltr">Blogging Woolf</div></div><div></div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_498158"><br></div><div class="m_-6630339959415697830signature" id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_498161"><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_498163"> </div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_498165"><a href="http://newswriting.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a> </div><div id="m_-6630339959415697830yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522684843488_501602"> </div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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