<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Woolf Community,</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday's exchange on our listserv about Honey and Wax bookshop and Second Shelf books testifies to a growing interest in feminist bookselling and book collecting. Our bookshelves tell stories about our literary interests, our cultural commitments, and our relationships with each other. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Please consider writing something for the upcoming issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany on "Collecting Woolf and Hogarth Press." The deadline is extended to September 30! You could write a short piece (500 or so words) on a particular book in your own collection, or a longer piece (2000 or so words) on any aspect of collecting, collections, feminist book associations, and more (see the CFP below). Please share the CFP! And do write me if you have an idea you'd like to discuss.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And keep in mind Honey and Wax's motto: "Use books as bees use flowers, and pollinate the world."</div><div><br></div><div>Be well all,</div><div><br></div><div>Catherine</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CFP: Woolf Miscellany, "Collecting Woolf" Sept. 30 deadline</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Who
collects Virginia Woolf and Hogarth Press books? When did the demand for and
economic value of Woolf’s and the Hogarth Press’s books begin in the
antiquarian book trade? Are Woolf and Hogarth Press books more or less
desirable than other modernist first editions? What are the emotional, haptic,
and educational values of early Woolf and Hogarth Press editions for scholars, students,
and common readers? What do the book collections of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
tell us about their lives as readers and writers? <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In
addition to more formal academic essays, this issue of the <i>Miscellany </i>(in collaboration with </span><a href="https://bloggingwoolf.wordpress.com/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blogging
Woolf</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> ) will also
feature a special section called “Our Bookshelves, Ourselves.” Our book
collections tell stories about our reading lives and also about our lives in
the larger community of Woolf’s readers and scholars. In fact, a history of our
bookshelves might begin to tell a history of the IVWS itself. If you are a
“common book collector,” and your books tell a story about your immersion in
Woolf or Hogarth Press studies, tell us about it. If you have interesting
strategies or stories about acquiring collectible editions of Woolf and Hogarth
Press books on a budget, let us know!<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Send
submissions of 2000 words for longer essays and 500 words for “Our Bookshelves”
by September 30, 2018 to Catherine Hollis via<span>
</span></span><a href="mailto:hollisc@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">hollisc@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Catherine W. Hollis, PhD<br></div>Instructor, Fall Program for Freshmen<br></div>U.C. Berkeley<br></div>Berkeley, CA 94720<br></div><a href="mailto:hollisc@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">hollisc@berkeley.edu</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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