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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Stuart—I had wondered if it was a reprint with Bechdel intro added, or a different selection. I was working with someone recently who had sent me some extracts and I saw that there was editorial matter in the Bechdel edition that comes straight from Leaska/DeSalvo. I suppose now I’ll have to get the Bechdel one. Sigh. It’s tough being a completist!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 17, 2021 10:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] query about VSW letters<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I doubt if there’s anything by VW or VSW that Mark hasn’t seen before.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>See here:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/__;!!KGKeukY!jevkQkrpaGe-l68GjyU6Cv13mn7nmiFJUuEsCHnvzQoKyyjOrW8yRPC6JWE1cH5oXXw07ihGTw5C$" title="https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/"><span style='color:#0066CC'>https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>What she writes here and elsewhere is confusing to anyone who comes with a background in VW & VSW<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>She writes elsewhere:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#333333'>Getting hold of a long-out-of-print copy of the Virginia and Vita letters had become something of a rite-of-passage for modern-day sapphists</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>h<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html__;!!KGKeukY!jevkQkrpaGe-l68GjyU6Cv13mn7nmiFJUuEsCHnvzQoKyyjOrW8yRPC6JWE1cH5oXXw07jlpk5cZ$" title="ttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html"><span style='color:#0066CC'>ttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>So, forget all that. The letters and diaries come from previously published editions. But this is not a reprint of DeSalvo & Leaska.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>(Day 396)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:44 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <a href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> [Vwoolf] query about VSW letters<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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)?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>