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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Yes, I thought that was odd: why not get a Woolfian? Because she <span>'didn’t want people to get bogged down in academia'. That's us told then. She wants people to read the letters '</span>like a novel'. By complete coincidence, she has written <span>a novel, 'a bisexual twist on a romcom', out next year. Where did she get that idea?<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>BUT</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>It might bring a new audience to Woolf, who knows? My view of Woolf might be totally different to someone else's view. And not everyone approaches even literary novelists in a literary fashion. To some people, the novels might just be a good read. (And now the letters too.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Now, how do I get off this fence?<br></span></div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, 17 April 2021, 15:20:35 BST, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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<div>I doubt if there’s anything by VW or VSW that Mark hasn’t seen
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<div>I’ve bought a copy – because I thought I ought to. It has, as
everyone knows, an intro by Bechdel. But who edited (selected) it?
Buried on the verso of the title-p. is the editor’s name, Lily Lindon. She
is employed as a Penguin Random House editor, which doesn’t mean that she is
employed to propose editing books herself.</div>
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<div>See here:</div>
<div><a shape="rect" title="https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/__;!!KGKeukY!jevkQkrpaGe-l68GjyU6Cv13mn7nmiFJUuEsCHnvzQoKyyjOrW8yRPC6JWE1cH5oXXw07ihGTw5C$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/</font></a></div>
<div>What she writes here and elsewhere is confusing to anyone who comes with a
background in VW & VSW</div>
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<div>She writes elsewhere:</div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><font style="background-color: inherit;"><font style="COLOR:#333333;"><font style="FONT-SIZE:10.8pt;">Getting hold of a long-out-of-print copy of the
Virginia and Vita letters had become something of a rite-of-passage for
modern-day sapphists</font></font></font></span></div>
<div>h<a shape="rect" title="ttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html__;!!KGKeukY!jevkQkrpaGe-l68GjyU6Cv13mn7nmiFJUuEsCHnvzQoKyyjOrW8yRPC6JWE1cH5oXXw07jlpk5cZ$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">ttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html</font></a></div>
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<div>So, forget all that. The letters and diaries come from previously
published editions. But this is not a reprint of DeSalvo &
Leaska.</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
<div>(Day 396)</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a shape="rect" title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Mark
Hussey via Vwoolf</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:44 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a shape="rect" title="VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] query about VSW letters</div></div></div></div>
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<p class="ydpf08eb3byiv6535567523MsoNormal">Does anyone know if the ‘Love Letters’ of Vita S-W and VW
with intro by Alison Bechdel recently published by Vintage is any different from
the edition published long ago, edited by DeSalvo and Leaska (apart, that is,
from the addition of intro by a famous
person)?</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpf08eb3byqt7853651811" id="ydpf08eb3byqt62011">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Vwoolf mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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