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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,<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">Thank you for this discussion of (and around) the recent
<i>Mrs. Dalloway </i>pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As most of you probably noticed, the
<i>Mrs. Dalloway </i>pieces preview introductions, both written by contemporary novelists, to two new editions of Woolf’s novel. We already know about the Vintage edition (see previous discussions/critiques), but Jenny Offill’s piece will be featured in the
Penguin Classics Deluxe edition: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653391/mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-edited-by-stella-mcnichol-foreword-by-jenny-offill-introduction-and-notes-by-elaine-showalter/__;!!KGKeukY!iM0KLcIQ8pXtYap8WW_HhY2vaUnK_3gy_d5ebPaBk3kOAppNPegcO_c8amkobktPtoY$">
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653391/mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-edited-by-stella-mcnichol-foreword-by-jenny-offill-introduction-and-notes-by-elaine-showalter/</a>. The edition will retain, at least according to the copyright page, Elaine Showalter’s
1992 introduction/notes. Almost thirty years separate Showalter’s work from Offill’s introduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Offill is the author of the novels
<i>Weather </i>(2020), <i>Department of Speculation </i>(2014), and <i>Last Things
</i>(2000). Here is her website: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jennyoffill.com__;!!KGKeukY!iM0KLcIQ8pXtYap8WW_HhY2vaUnK_3gy_d5ebPaBk3kOAppNPegcO_c8amkoyEose-I$">https://jennyoffill.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Benjamin D. Hagen, Ph.D. (he/him/his)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Assistant Professor | 20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">University of South Dakota | Department of English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dakota Hall, Room 212 | 414 E. Clark St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Vermillion, SD 57069 | United States<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:benjamin.hagen@usd.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">benjamin.hagen@usd.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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