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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t remember if this has been discussed on the listserv or not, or even if what I’m about to ask is substantive enough to merit discussion. I have a British paperback of the Pimlico edition of the Bell biography, which claims to be
revised. The copyright page gives the publication history as the original two-volume Hogarth Press edition in 1972, a one-volume Hogarth Press edition in 1982, a revised Hogarth Press edition in 1990, and this Pimlico edition, with further revisions, in 1996.
The changes I see seem to be in the Preface, which is new to the Pimlico edition, and which repeats some of Bell’s material from the original preface (about not being qualified to perform literary criticism on Woolf’s texts), with a bit of added history about
Leonard’s suggestion that he write the book and some thoughts on how his opinions about some of Woolf’s novels have changed. There is a book list at the back, which clearly dates from this new Pimlico edition, as it has books as recently-published as 1994
in it, and the Family Tree has been updated with death dates for people who died after the 1972 original edition. Is anyone aware of any other substantive changes to the text? I’ve not gone through it page by page, but wonder if anyone else has. This is
mainly to satisfy my own curiosity more than anything else. Also, it doesn’t seem that any of the subsequent American reprints of the book have any of these changes – the current Harcourt paperback my students use has the old Family Tree and Preface, as far
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts would be welcome. I hope all are well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Drew<o:p></o:p></p>
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Drew Shannon, Ph.D.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Professor of English<br>
Department of Liberal Arts<br>
Mount St. Joseph University<br>
5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672<br>
513-244-4541 | </span><a href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue">Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.” – Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623">Please consider the environment before printing this email.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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