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Dear Yujia, That's right, I'm in Massachusetts till late September, but do get in touch whenever you come to Chicago/Evanston. Are you living abroad now? Here's a link to another exhibition that might interest you, alluding to A Room of One's</div>
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<p>Dear Yujia,</p>
<p>That's right, I'm in Massachusetts till late September, but do
get in touch whenever you come to Chicago/Evanston. Are you living
abroad now?</p>
<p>Here's a link to another exhibition that might interest you,
alluding to A Room of One's Own:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/a-room-of-her-own/about-the-exhibition/introduction__;!!KGKeukY!1wPJjXP_8xGgqzTpBSPvVZFdXHwwcj6lwSxzBbdA4dYtj8v16Ll9ziYpPftAePEUdr0i7iW4B03g7yTMWdeko0MFDas$">https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/a-room-of-her-own/about-the-exhibition/introduction</a></p>
<p>And there's also a Woolf listserv you can join if you like: </p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> <br>
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<p>very best wishes,</p>
<p>Christine Froula<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/11/2025 4:56 AM, Yujia Huang
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Dear Professor Froula,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thank you so much for your reply! It’s wonderful
to hear back from you. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Yes, it’s indeed incredible to see everything in
person - I think my connection with Woolf and the Bloomsbury is
ever more special now. And like you said, I’m so grateful to
have these Bloomsbury friends for the rest of my life. </div>
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<div dir="auto">The Switzerland trip sounds incredible! I had no
idea that Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein there. The
course you’re designing sounds so fun!</div>
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<div dir="auto">I will actually be visiting Evanston mid-August,
but I assume you will not be in town then. But hopefully we can
meet in person sometime in the future!</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thank you again and enjoy the beautiful summer!</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best,</div>
<div dir="auto">Yujia </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at
19:09 Christine Froula <<a href="mailto:cfroula@northwestern.edu" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">cfroula@northwestern.edu</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Dear
Yujia,<br>
<br>
What a delight to hear from you about your enduring,
deepening, <br>
blossoming love of Woolf and Bloomsbury and your pilgrimages
to London, <br>
rare bookstores, Monk's House, and Charleston!<br>
<br>
Isn't it exciting to see things you know from pictures and
books leap <br>
into existence before your eyes--like Bell's cupboard and
those two <br>
historic houses and gardens--and then the way moving among
Bloomsbury <br>
worlds and creations makes everything "talk to" everything
else, so that <br>
you learn more and more almost effortlessly!<br>
<br>
I remember the wonder of my earliest Woolf and Bloomsbury
pilgrimages, <br>
starting in 1973 to St Ives, the scene of Woolf's cherished
childhood <br>
summers, which also inspires the imaginary setting of To the
Lighthouse <br>
(the Hebrides being the fictional setting). The last one was
to <br>
Charleston with curator Darren Clarke, he having very kindly
offered to <br>
show me around after a Woolf conference in (I think)
Reading. It's <br>
lovely to be reminded of them by your lovely email.<br>
<br>
I'm in Massachusetts for the summer, except for a short trip
to Montreux <br>
next month for the wedding of a former student of mine--he
and his bride <br>
(now both getting their PhDs in biochemistry at MIT) having
asked me and <br>
my husband to officiate. We were bowled over and are looking
forward to <br>
it tremendously. I'll be studying up on the Lake Geneva
locales, for <br>
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein during a summer on
the Lake that <br>
she spent with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and her
half-sister Clair <br>
Clairmont--inspired by a ghost story contest suggested by
Byron. I'm <br>
planning a course, Frankenstein and Friends, for next year,
with some <br>
local color such as you're finding come to life all around
you in London <br>
and Sussex.<br>
<br>
I love the pictures you sent--thank you--especially the one
of you in <br>
front of the Duncan Grant fireplace at Charleston, with
Vanessa's dinner <br>
plates in the cabinet beside. I wish we'd been able to meet
in person, <br>
but your message is heartening testimony that all wasn't
lost during <br>
those days of Remote Learning.<br>
<br>
Thank you so much for writing, and enjoy your lifelong
Bloomsbury friends,<br>
<br>
Yours truly,<br>
<br>
Christine Froula<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 7/10/2025 1:31 PM, Yujia Huang wrote:<br>
> Dear Professor Froula,<br>
><br>
> I hope you are doing well! I’m not sure if you remember
me because the <br>
> course was online and I couldn’t fully participate, but
this is Yujia <br>
> who took your Woolf & Bloomsbury course back in
2020.<br>
><br>
> I just wanted to write and say that the class left such
a lasting <br>
> impression on me. I continued to read Woolf after the
class, and she <br>
> remains one of my favorite authors. I am actually in
London right now <br>
> and was lucky enough to travel down to Lewes to visit
Charleston and <br>
> Monk’s house.<br>
><br>
> I did my mid-term presentation on Making Charleston, so
it was <br>
> incredible for me to actually see the house and all the
amazing <br>
> artworks and objects that are in it. And of course the
house itself is <br>
> the biggest piece of artwork. The one furniture that I
remember the <br>
> most is Venessa’s closet decorated with yellow circles
against the <br>
> purple background. I recognized it immediately because
I remember <br>
> using a photo of that for my PowerPoint.<br>
><br>
> They actually also have an art exhibition on Vanessa
Bell at the <br>
> moment, and I was surprised to see the breath and depth
of her works, <br>
> in so many forms, shapes, and textures - from textiles,
paintings, <br>
> interior, book cover design, posters, to furniture and
more. The dust <br>
> jackets she designed for Woolf are of course just
incredible.<br>
><br>
> Then I went to Monk’s house and it was breathtaking to
be in the same <br>
> space where Woolf breathed, ate, wrote, suffered,
joyed, and lived. <br>
> The garden was so beautiful. They even had a garden
reading where <br>
> volunteers read out Woolf’s diaries and an artist in
residence who was <br>
> drawing on the lawn. All the volunteers were so
knowledgeable and <br>
> kind, and it was amazing to see how many people love
the Bloomsbury.<br>
><br>
> A few days ago I also went to Bloomsbury in London and
saw all the <br>
> blue plaques on the walls where the greats resided. The
atmosphere was <br>
> electric and with UCL right in the area, the energy
felt different. I <br>
> have been also going to rare bookstores to see the
earlier versions of <br>
> her works. It was crazy to see the first edition of To
The Lighthouse <br>
> priced at 35,000 pounds! But I was lucky enough to find
a fifth <br>
> edition of The Years and bought it for a relatively
good price.<br>
><br>
> I apologize for the lengthy email, but I have been
having the time of <br>
> my life with this Bloomsbury pilgrimage. I am so
grateful for your <br>
> class because otherwise I would not have been
introduced to the <br>
> amazing world of Woolf and Bloomsbury. I always think
back on it.<br>
><br>
> Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and
I hope all is <br>
> well in Evanston!<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Yujia Huang<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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