<div dir="ltr"><div>How this passage has lifted my spirits this morning (under blankets of snow):</div><div><br></div><div> "I have still barely dipped into "The Waves: The two holograph
drafts" (1976). (If I were on “Desert Island Discs”, I would choose that
as my book. However wonderful a conventional book, wouldn’t one get tired
of rereading it?)" </div><div><br></div><div>Couldn't agree more! Thank you, Stuart, as ever for your thoughtful and thought-provoking contributions to this list, but esp today for the imagery :)</div><div><br></div><div>Jean<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 3:53 AM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I agree with Mark Scott. I’m not especially interested in Woolfian
adaptations: biofiction,* plays, ballets, operas, songs about sausage and
haddock, Kabe Wilson, using the first 50 letters of “To the Lighthouse” to play
Scrabble, etc. But other people are. What excitement on this list
when Michael Cunningham published “The Hours”! (I read the ch., "A Room at
the Normandy: Mrs. Brown Meets Mrs. Dalloway in Southern California", in the
“New Yorker” in 1998.) And then the film . . . well, of course, plenty of
discussion.</div>
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<div>No, what I *really* like is Virginia Woolf’s own words in the order in
which she wrote them. I am now prepared to confess that I haven’t read
everything she wrote that is available: I haven’t actually read “A Passionate
Apprentice” from cover to cover. I haven’t read most of the transcriptions
of her drafts; I have still barely dipped into "The Waves: The two holograph
drafts" (1976). (If I were on “Desert Island Discs”, I would choose that
as my book. However wonderful a conventional book, wouldn’t one get tired
of rereading it?)</div>
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<div>I am, however, enthusiastic when a new bit of diary appears, such as
“Carlyle’s House” (ed. David Bradshaw, 2003) or the Asheham Diary [1917-18] in
the “Charleston Magazine” (9:Spr/Summer 1994).</div>
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<div>And of course I’m delighted when I come across a new letter, unpublished or
uncollected. How thrilled people would be if some more texts of
Shakespeare were found. But, generally, other people don’t share my
enthusiasm over these letters and have no interest when they are made
available.</div>
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<div>*Anyone read Gail Pass’s “Zoe’s Book” (1976)? I haven’t. I’ve
read "The Shadow of the Moth: a novel of espionage with Virginia Woolf" (1983),
which is set in London in 1917 (when reading it, I literally had no idea what
was meant by this sentence: “’Sorry, sir,’ apologized the precinct captain” (p.
209)); "Layers of social, literary, and psychological realism [makes for] a
highly imaginative spoof" (puff). I tried reading “Mr Dalloway”, but
couldn’t cope with the Americanisms and inaccuracies.</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
<div>(Day 321, aka “The Blitz Spirit” V1 Day)</div>
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<div>“Duncan ... eases JMK’s passage into Bloomsbury Group” </div>
<div>(p. 437b, index in vol. 1 of Skidelsky’s biography of Maynard Keynes)
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jean Mills (she, her, hers)<br>Associate Professor<br>The Department of English<br>John Jay College/CUNY<br>524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12<br>New York, NY 10019<br><br></div>Selected Publications:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><i>Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger </i>by Jane Marcus; Edited and with an Introduction and Afterword by Jean Mills. Clemson University Press, Fall, 2020</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/nancy-cunard-perfect-stranger/__;!!KGKeukY!nKxQrzT1n-aBgyaXzbuOKuzRbNb6_x-nvj6Im4sYDNfMVG5mFixvyDC-tCDv-BpU2HU$" target="_blank">https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/nancy-cunard-perfect-stranger/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"Obscene, Grotesque, and Carnivalesque: Hope Mirrlees's <i>Lud-in-the-Mist </i>as Menippean Satire" in <i>The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s. </i>Routledge, Fall, 2018.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.routledge.com/The-Female-Fantastic-Gendering-the-Supernatural-in-the-1890s-and-1920s/McCormick-Mitchell-Soares/p/book/9780815364023__;!!KGKeukY!nKxQrzT1n-aBgyaXzbuOKuzRbNb6_x-nvj6Im4sYDNfMVG5mFixvyDC-tCDvk0uP1Xk$" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/The-Female-Fantastic-Gendering-the-Supernatural-in-the-1890s-and-1920s/McCormick-Mitchell-Soares/p/book/9780815364023</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div>"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in <i>Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War </i>(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003__;!!KGKeukY!nKxQrzT1n-aBgyaXzbuOKuzRbNb6_x-nvj6Im4sYDNfMVG5mFixvyDC-tCDvXO8nKj8$" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism </i><span style="font-size:12.8px">(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book*20Pages/Mills*20Virginia.html__;JSU!!KGKeukY!nKxQrzT1n-aBgyaXzbuOKuzRbNb6_x-nvj6Im4sYDNfMVG5mFixvyDC-tCDv222936U$" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Associate Editor, <i>Feminist Modernist Studies</i></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">212.237.8706</span><br></div><div><a href="mailto:JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU" target="_blank">JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>