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Dear Caroline,</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's not the tail end of the conversation! Your observations are very valuable and interesting. Cunningham pops up everywhere--he is a contributor to
</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The
</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mrs. Dalloway
</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Reader</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> edited by Francine Prose (with
a Foreword by Mark Hussey). He contributed to </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Lit Hub
</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">in 2019</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(see</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lithub.com/michael-cunningham-on-the-novel-that-would-become-mrs-dalloway-2/__;!!KGKeukY!ihu_QpyLSLPIY22u2WnyEcEhq4sRIlkcWIqYa8Edjd52Pd6jz9koY3B7yE6-7nVci9Q$" id="LPlnk" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://lithub.com/michael-cunningham-on-the-novel-that-would-become-mrs-dalloway-2/</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">).
As Kristin Czarnecki mentioned, the Introduction to the SP Books manuscript of </span>
<i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Hours</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Mrs.
Dalloway</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">) is by Cunningham. He's the go-to person if someone mentions
<i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>. But he really doesn't seem to have any worthy insights regarding the novel. </span><br>
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As to what is cheaper for the publishers, I am not sure that choosing Cunningham or another famous author would be less expensive than selecting a respected Woolf scholar in the US. There is
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">generally<span> </span></span>very little compensation for intellectual contributions in the form of royalties or even in lump sum payments. The publishers don't seem to view the acquisition
of these texts for the classroom as a serious source of revenue. Perhaps they are right. Students tend not to purchase new books if they can find used versions of the edition or be able to rent it. </div>
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On a related thread, I love teaching with Oxford World's editions. These volumes have stellar materials that support and inform the reader--whether common or otherwise. I am hoping that publishers such as W. W. Norton will start to publish Woolf's novels as
well as <i>A Room of One's Own </i>and <i>Three Guineas</i> as they come out of copyright. <br>
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Best,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 3, 2021 11:55 PM<br>
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<span style="">P.S. I didn’t realise I was responding to the tail end of a discussion, sorry. I’d left the US before the Harcourt annotated editions came out, and am sorry I didn’t have the chance to work with them, as I gathered that they were excellent.</span></p>
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<span style="">I’ve always found the introductions and (usually) endnotes by scholars, not to mention actual editing, lend great value to Oxford World’s Classics, Penguin Classics, etc. As far as I can tell from my students’ choices, however, they are picking
up what is cheapest rather than looking for an editor/introducer of either scholarly or popular-cultural status. I doubt they’d pay attention to an introduction having been written by Cunningham, especially at this stage—<i>The Hours
</i>is no more (and probably less) a current bestseller than <i>Mrs Dalloway </i>
itself, and I don’t think his more recent writing has been particularly successful in this country at least.
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<span style="">Caroline Webb</span></p>
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<span style="">The University of Newcastle, Australia</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Caroline Webb via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 4 January 2021 3:22 PM<br>
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<span style="">Where copyright still exists, different publishers often hold the rights to authors’ works in different countries—it can sometimes be a maze getting quotation rights if one is working on several books with complicated publishing histories. For
years Penguin didn’t publish in the US as most books to which it held the copyrights in the UK and most of the Commonwealth were owned by different publishers in the US and sometimes Canada. The recent mergers of publishers into a few vast international behemoths
is changing that. (I never expected to see 1950s American sf texts offered by Hachette!)</span></p>
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<i><span style="">Mrs Dalloway</span></i><span style="">, like Woolf’s other work, came out of copyright about ten years ago in Australia and I think many other countries, as copyright on published work here expires 70 years after the death of the author.</span></p>
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<span style="">Caroline Webb</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=newcastle.edu.au@lists.osu.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Diana Swanson via Vwoolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 30 December 2020 2:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net">mhussey@verizon.net</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>; Dr T Tate <<a href="mailto:tt206@cam.ac.uk">tt206@cam.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Editions of Woolf for teaching</span></p>
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Isn’t the issue US copyright law? As I understand it, Mrs Dalloway comes out of copyright in the US in 2021. Or am I mistaken?<br>
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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 9:02 AM, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> The Harcourt editions are not available in the UK, I know, but are the OUP<br>
> ones available in the USA? I couldn't tell from the website just now (though<br>
> there is a notice about the effects of Brexit on placing orders from the<br>
> EU!). I always liked the Penguin editions (Julia Briggs et al.) but they<br>
> were never available in Americanland.<br>
> <br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>> On Behalf Of<br>
> Dr T Tate via Vwoolf<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 9:34 AM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br>
> Subject: [Vwoolf] Editions of Woolf for teaching<br>
> <br>
> Dear Woolfians,<br>
> <br>
> Re. the discussion of editions of Woolf for teaching.<br>
> <br>
> I find the Oxford World Classics good for teaching. They usually have a<br>
> readable introduction by a good scholar, and the notes are generally useful<br>
> and useable but not overwhelming. The font has become rather tiny in recent<br>
> years, which is difficult for some readers (not least we ageing teachers)<br>
> but apart from that issue I think they are usually very good.<br>
> <br>
> Do lecturers in the US find the Oxford World Classics useful?<br>
> <br>
> Best wishes,<br>
> Trudi<br>
> <br>
> ---<br>
> Dr Trudi Tate<br>
> Assistant Senior Tutor<br>
> Clare Hall<br>
> Cambridge CB3 9AL<br>
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