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<p>And another famous contemporary writer whose name we all know
once claimed Woolf called someone (I think it was Vita?) a
"bitch." (I was able to explain that Woolf had used that word only
in reference to female canines, as far as I could tell, and edit
it out of her piece.)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/2025 10:56 AM, Mark Hussey via
Vwoolf wrote:<br>
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With so many Woolfians in the UK recently for the Sussex
conference, some may have heard a programme on BBC Radio 4
('Three Transformations of Virginia Woolf'). In the 2nd episode,
broadcast on Tuesday July 8, Alison Light, speaking</div>
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<div>With so many Woolfians in the UK recently for the Sussex
conference, some may have heard a programme on BBC Radio 4
('Three Transformations of Virginia Woolf'). In the 2nd
episode, broadcast on Tuesday July 8, Alison Light, speaking
about Woolf's relations with servants, said that she uses the
word 'vermin' in connection with servants. This is no more
true than Merve Emre's claim in her annotated <i>Mrs Dalloway
</i>that Woolf used the word "coolies" "liberally" in her
diary (it's not used there at all). 'Vermin' and 'verminous'
appear in a number of instances in Woolf's writing but not
describing servants. Ever. This is how rumors start!</div>
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<div>(My thanks to Marielle O'Neill for searching the online
complete works before I could get back to my CD-Rom, where I
confirmed the above!)</div>
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<div><i>Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel </i>2025</div>
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