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I think in the wake of Leavis and Scrutiny, etc., Woolf was very much considered a minor lady novelist in england after her death. Surveys like those by Walter Allen (on my BA reading list in the seventies) were quite disparaging.<br>But the story is never all one way!<br><br><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661__;!!KGKeukY!zXYIocDid2W6uT4vcDgmbgJ7UMeeOguLQbwK6YXlMZynsuumuZ6HIK46Nw74hhs430fYY0mL9DEp4jOoKKXwGw$">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Sunday, May 14, 2023, 5:23 PM, Peter D L Stansky via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0780165158"><div><div style="display:none !important;display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;min-height:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden;">
This is very interesting but I’m not sure that I agree with Vara’s analysis. Was VW neglected and marginalized in her life time? Although not as prominent as she is now I think that during her life time and after she was always a well respected
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal">This is very interesting but I’m not sure that I agree with Vara’s analysis. Was VW neglected and marginalized in her life time? Although not as prominent as she is now I think that during her life time and after she was always a well respected
and quite well known author, in many ways at the top of her profession. In terms of her archives going to the Berg collection through an American agent I think that was Leonard’s decision not primarily that he thought she would get more attention in the US
but it was a much better financial deal than he was likely to get in the UK, which was true. Also probably a UK buyer would not have agreed with Leonard’s wish to be paid but would not need to deliver the papers until after his death. And I think his prediction
was wrong. If the Archive were the UK I am sure it would be far from neglected. Best, Peter</p>
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<p style="border:none;padding:0in;" class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf</a><br clear="none">
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<b>Subject: </b>[Vwoolf] A New York Times Book Review that resonates with Woolf but does not mention her</p>
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<p style="" class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white;display:none;">Greetings, Holland Cotter's "The Pariah of Paris," a review of Picasso: The Foreigner by Annie Cohen-Solal, was published in the Sunday, May 14, 2023,
print issue of the New York Times Book Review. It is evocative of the reception
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;">Holland Cotter's "The
<span style="background:white;">Pariah</span> of Paris," a review of <i>Picasso: The Foreigner</i> by Annie Cohen-Solal, was published in the Sunday, May 14, 2023, print issue of the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>. It is evocative of the reception of Woolf
in Great Britain after her death in some respects (note: there are two iterations of the review—the first one, titled "Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris," was published online on 1 April 2023 and has more illustrations: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/picasso-the-foreigner-annie-cohen-solal.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ3zLHrZV$">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/picasso-the-foreigner-annie-cohen-solal.html</a>). </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;">The review is very interesting and well worth reading (I do hope the link is function) and so seems the book itself in which Picasso's life as an outsider in
France is detailed. The rejection of <span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted6"><span style="background:white;">Picasso's artwork in France, cast aside by the "tradition-minded French cultural establishment" (as per Cotter), </span></span>echoes the marginalization of Woolf's
work (despite Leonard Woolf's attempts to keep Virginia's work visible and viable and, <span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted9"><span style="background:white;">after Leonard's death, </span></span>Quentin Bell's own continuing efforts to write a biography, <span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted8"><span style="background:white;">however
contested, </span></span>and also maintain Virginia's literary status by publishing her letters and diaries). </span></p>
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;">Outright r<span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted12">ejection and neglect are closely related in terms of marginalizing artists and writers. </span>With regard to reception,
one can relish in retrospect how extremely embarrassing it is that the Louvre rejected Picasso's offer of
<i>Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</i> (1907), which t<span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted13">he Museum of Modern Art in New York happily acquired in 1939 (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.moma.org/research/conservation/demoiselles/history.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ-1ZdBC9$">https://www.moma.org/research/conservation/demoiselles/history.html</a>). </span></span></p>
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted13"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;">It was the New York Public Library that acquired Woolf's archival work. As</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;"> Mark
Hussey highlights in his essay "Virginia Woolf in America" (<i>A Room of Their Own: The <span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted1">Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections</span></i><span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted1">, 2009), </span>Leonard Woolf believed that Virginia was
not going to be recognized or respected in her home country and wrote in a letter to his brother that, "if the MSS went to Cambridge or Oxford, they would be stuffed away somewhere and no one would ever look at them again except that one would be shown from
time to time to the public under a glass case." Mark continues: "<span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted11">Thus the bulk of Woolf's archive found its way to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library" (49). (The first wave of archival materials was acquired in
1958; the <i>New York Times </i>refers to this early acquisition in article on William Beekman's amazing artifacts that were purchased for the Berg Collection in 2019: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/virginia-woolf-nypl.html__;!!KGKeukY!3aaCpAit6nuA5W2CQFWAk6j9lTVrzlpLQu86_WUM8azsOC7GP7hd3MvgL5vueej-6AMNcn3_q8L1GvcG4jzCZ5_HBzsF$">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/virginia-woolf-nypl.html</a>;
the recent Berg exhibition included many of these materials).</span></span></p>
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<p class="yiv0780165158MsoNormal"><span class="yiv0780165158contentpasted10"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;color:black;background:white;">Of course, Picasso was truly a foreigner in France while Woolf was, after her own death, neglected in her own
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