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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst>I just want to take the opportunity to remind Woolf-list folks of what I think is still the best essay on the history of the Bloomsbury-bashing phenomenon and its socio-political uses: Christopher Reed’s “Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties,” which is reprinted in its entirety and with a new introduction by Reed updating the trend in <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> (2016). One might do better to read that essay instead of the recent one Vara refers to in the Telegraph.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle>Very best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Brenda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Co-editor <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> (with Madelyn Detloff)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html"><span style='color:blue'>https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>