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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Oh dear. Does no one check these claims before publishing? Do I see a strongly worded letter to the Editor of EJCS approaching?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I like the Manning quotation and have made a note of it. So you may see it quoted back at you one of these days, Stuart.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 12 November 2020, 14:20:59 GMT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">“The Virginia Woolf Memorial in Tavistock
Square inscribes the space with the memory of Woolf, writing her story onto the
Bloomsbury cityscape. ‘Virginia Woolf lived in a house formerly on the south
side of Tavistock Square from 1924 to 1939 where most of her greatest novels
were written and published’, the memorial’s base tells passers-by, providing
them with the name of the person represented by the bust and the motivation for
its placement at that very spot. </font><font face="Times New Roman">Unlike many statues and busts scattered across the
capitals of Europe, the bronze cast of Stephen Tomlin’s 1931 Virginia Woolf bust
does not mention the represented figure’s dates of birth and death
(1882–1941). Instead, it offers a quotation from an autobiographical text
... followed by a sponsorship claim: ‘“Then one day walking round Tavistock
Square I made up, as I sometimes make up my books, To the Lighthouse; in a
great, apparently involuntary rush.” This memorial was erected by the Virginia
Woolf Society of Great Britain, 26 June 2004’.”*</font></div>
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<div>If only there were somewhere nearby, some means of ascertaining Woolf’s
dates that would be easily accessible to passers-by. Perhaps, if the
reality is too strong, a photo might help:</div>
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<div><img title="VW bust in Tavistock Sq" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; width: 644px; max-width: 644px;" alt="VW bust in Tavistock Sq" src="cid:cdab0f3d-cad7-869a-7e71-b0b4aed2d7c3@yahoo.com" border="0"></div>
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<div>And what does “a sponsorship claim” mean, except to sneer? (SNEERING
ALERT! The author quotes one “R. Solnit” with apparent approval: <span style="LINE-HEIGHT:18pt;">“Walking allows us to be in
our bodies and in the world” (111).)</span></div>
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<div>When Jean Moorcroft provides “a pleasant walk” in her “Virginia Woolf: Life
and London”, the author comments that “evidently social problems will be
avoided” (113). As Olivia Manning once wrote: “Y<span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" color="#202122">ou might suppose that were it not for such distractions as
Tiberias, the Valley of the Kings or Hadrian's Villa, tourists abroad would
occupy themselves solely in alleviating poverty."</font></span></div>
<div><font color="#202122"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span></font><font color="#202122"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span></font><font color="#202122"><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span></font> </div>
<div>*PLATE, Liedke<font color="#202122">, "Walking in Virginia Woolf's Footsteps:
Performing cultural memory", European_Journal_of_Cultural_Studies, IX,1:101-20
at 103-4 (2006)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#202122">Stuart </font></div>
<div><font color="#202122">(Day 240)</font></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br></div>
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