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<div dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Cringeworthy. All too familiar and still lurking as indicated by André Aciman’s recent obnoxious observations about Woolf. Just another instance
of the legacy of Woolf-loathing. </span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And definitely #grateful is the right term. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I would argue that
Woolf’s survival/revival as a recognized and respected writer can be attributed both to Leonard Woolf (obviously) but also to many graduate students in the US in the 1960s who fought with their dissertation directors and won the right to focus on Woolf or
who independently pursued their interests in Woolf and then, as they gradually entered academia as assistant professors, started teaching Woolf and publishing on Woolf. And, of course, the Women’s Movement (in the US) was a major part of the surge in Woolf’s
critical reception. And so was--and is--the founding of the Woolf Societies!! (I’m not listing the many sources that would support these statements). </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Just curi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">ous about the evolution of Dalloway Day. Did the VWSGB
launch the first iteration in 2018? That’s my recollection. But perhaps the Italian Woolf Society did it first? I know the VWSGB continued the tradition in 2019 since I was able to be there and that the British Library also hosted an event in 2019 (was that
the first instance?). The Royal Society of Literature did an online 2020 event (and has one scheduled this year as well). Its website says it has been doing it for some time on this webpage: </span><span style="font-size:inherit"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rsliterature.org/dalloway-day/__;!!KGKeukY!l0egEYG_Q2vYIFySo54SAXDmu2TqsnSDnHvzWkZ0GKdgzbITVhvOAj4hNdU_QZMQe5Q$"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://rsliterature.org/dalloway-day/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">,
but I can't find earlier instances.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> Paula Maggio's Blogging Woolf traces the event to 2018: </span><span style="font-size: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bloggingwoolf.org/woolf-events-around-the-globe/events-of-2018/__;!!KGKeukY!l0egEYG_Q2vYIFySo54SAXDmu2TqsnSDnHvzWkZ0GKdgzbITVhvOAj4hNdU_616Dftk$" id="LPlnk"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">https://bloggingwoolf.org/woolf-events-around-the-globe/events-of-2018/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> (and
provides a robust page of archival materials from earlier Dalloway Day events </span><span style="font-size: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bloggingwoolf.org/category/dalloway-day/__;!!KGKeukY!l0egEYG_Q2vYIFySo54SAXDmu2TqsnSDnHvzWkZ0GKdgzbITVhvOAj4hNdU_RgqyBdA$" id="LPlnk"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">https://bloggingwoolf.org/category/dalloway-day/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">).</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:56:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu <Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "The Pelican Guide to English Literature"</font>
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<div dir="auto">It’s a moment like this that I like to h/t #grateful for decades of feminist scholarship. Can I get an amen? -Jean<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 16, 2021, at 3:49 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br>
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<div>This first appeared in 7 vols in 1961 and was frequently reprinted. It was revised as "The New Pelican Guide to English Literature" in 1983. My copy is the 1990 reprint. In vol. 7 is the late (d. 1983) Frank W. Bradbrook’s "Virginia Woolf: The Theory
and Practice of Fiction". In “To the Lighthouse”:</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="word-wrap:break-word; margin:0cm"><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman">The world of prose has been united with those of poetry and of art. ‘</font></span><span style="word-wrap:break-word; font-family:; color:"><font face="Times New Roman">Orlando’
(1928), though it has brilliant passages, has not the unity of ‘To the Lighthouse’ and the indulgence of fantasy is inclined to pall. ...
<span style="font-family:; color:">There are beautiful passages [in ‘The Waves’], but there is not ‘an intimate autobiographical sense of life'. ‘The Years’ (1937) contains, near the beginning, a flash of the old satirical wit in the description of the hypocrisy
of Colonel Pargiter and the death, after a painful, protracted illness, of his wife. The novel, as a whole, shows signs of tiredness, and is dull and monotonous. ...
</span></font></span><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman">[In] ‘Between the Acts’ (1941) [the] heart has</font></span><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman"> gone out of Virginia Woolf's work.</font></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="word-wrap:break-word; margin:0cm"><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman"> That her genius had burned itself out is confirmed by the six previousl</font></span><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman">y unpublished short
stories at the end of ‘A Haunted House’ (1944). </font></span><span style=""><font face="Times New Roman">Her short stories, despite some brilliancies, tend to confirm the s</font></span><span style="word-wrap:break-word; font-family:; color:"><font face="Times New Roman">ense
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<div>“A Haunted House” (1944) Contents: </div>
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<div>6 from “Monday or Tuesday” (1921) :</div>
<div>A Haunted House </div>
<div>Monday or Tuesday </div>
<div>An Unwritten Novel </div>
<div>The String Quartet </div>
<div>Kew Gardens </div>
<div>The Mark on the Wall </div>
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<div>6 published separately:</div>
<div>The New Dress - 1927</div>
<div>The Shooting Party - 1938</div>
<div>Lappin and Lapinova - 1939</div>
<div>Solid Objects - 1920</div>
<div>The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection - 1929</div>
<div>The Duchess and the Jeweller - 1938</div>
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<div>6 unpublished (per Leonard Woolf, but he said “Moments of Being” may have been published; only that story and “The Searchlight” are finally revised):</div>
<div>Moments of Being: "Slater's Pins Have No Points" – published 1928</div>
<div>The Man Who Loved his Kind – [1925]</div>
<div>The Searchlight – [1939]</div>
<div>The Legacy – [1940]</div>
<div>Together and Apart – [1925]</div>
<div>A Summing Up – [1925]</div>
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