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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I’m on the committee for the Virginia Woolf Statue campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>With heated discussions about public statues in the news these days, join the many prominent people who have publicly endorsed the proposal to erect a life-size bronze statue of the writer and women’s rights champion, <b>Virginia Woolf</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>These include, politicians: <span style='color:#4472C4'>Zac Goldsmith, Sarah Olney</span>, <span style='color:#4472C4'>Bill Newton Dunn </span>local councillors: <span style='color:#4472C4'>John Coombs, Peter Buckwell, Pam Fleming </span>writers:<span style='color:#4472C4'> Anne Sebba, Claire Tomalin, Phillippa Gregory, A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, </span><span style='color:#3078BE'>Caitlin Moran, Jodi Picoult, Deborah Frances White, Elizabeth Day, </span><span style='color:#4472C4'>Jackie Kay, Kit de Waal</span><span style='color:#3078BE'> </span>and broadcasters<span style='color:#3078BE'>: Bamber Gascoigne, James O’Brien </span>and<span style='color:#3078BE'> Natasha Devon </span>(LBC).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/13/virginia-woolf-statue-fundraiser-flooded-with-donations-after-wollstonecraft-controversy__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xRmIJvhE$"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/13/virginia-woolf-statue-fundraiser-flooded-with-donations-after-wollstonecraft-controversy</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Virginia Woolf, the much-celebrated writer, champion of women’s rights and business founder, lived in Richmond from 1914 to 1924 with her husband, Leonard Woolf. There, Virginia learned to hone her writing craft and founded, along with her husband, the Hogarth Press. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Her publication <i>Kew Gardens</i> was the start of the rise in interest of her work. As her husband later wrote with reference to Richmond and Hogarth House; ‘Those … years were, I am sure, crucial for the stabilizing of her mind and health and for her work, and I am quite sure that the tranquil atmosphere of these two houses… helped to tranquilize her mind.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Even Virginia herself felt that living in Richmond and Hogarth House were crucial to her state of mind and her development as a writer, stating that ‘Nowhere else could we have started the Hogarth Press, whose very awkward beginning had rise in this very room, on this very green carpet.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Some further links related to our campaign:</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Fundraising page, we’re at £22k we need at least £50k to create </span><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayCharityCampaignPage.action?charityCampaignUrl=VirginiaWoolfStatue__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xy2FnmdY$" target="_blank" title="https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayCharityCampaignPage.action?charityCampaignUrl=VirginiaWoolfStatue"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayCharityCampaignPage.action?charityCampaignUrl=VirginiaWoolfStatue</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We’re also hosting an online gala event on 12<sup>th</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>December which will include music, poetry, play readings to raise funds for sculpture<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gala-for-virginia-woolf-tickets-128533973575__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xpAWznO0$"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gala-for-virginia-woolf-tickets-128533973575</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Charity page Aurora Metro Arts and Media<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aurorametro.org/__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xYU1LT4o$"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>https://www.aurorametro.org/</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Further information on the VW campaign<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aurorametro.org/virginia-woolf-statue__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xpzb1zuw$" title="https://www.aurorametro.org/virginia-woolf-statue"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>https://www.aurorametro.org/virginia-woolf-statue</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Book published about Virginia Woolf<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://t.co/wXnjf0d5gM?amp=1__;!!KGKeukY!hmVj11Hb9Ph9sIC6OImMdahS61e3Lxd0rd_1WaZvxMuaNyuDtLY5Zhf_pB9xe7hUMtM$"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1'>https://t.co/wXnjf0d5gM?amp=1</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Twitter handles are @VWoolfStatue @aurorametro</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"American Typewriter",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Peter J Fullagar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"American Typewriter",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"American Typewriter",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>ELT Writer and Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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