[Vwoolf] In search of an elusive VW reference

[B Rilett]

Thanks! No wonder my phrase searching didn't catch it!
Bev


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

>   Somebody don’t know how to quote accurately:
>
> ‘Orlando did not come.
> ‘"All right then," Orlando said, with the good humour people practise on
> these occasions; and tried another. For she had a great variety of selves
> to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a
> biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven
> selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.’
>
> “Orlando” (Harvest,p. 309).
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
>  *From:* B Rilett <brilett2 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:10 PM
> *To:* Woolf list <VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] In search of an elusive VW reference
>
> In the Introduction to Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography<http://uncpress.unc.edu/FMPro?-db=pubtest.fmp&-format=detail.html&-lay=layout2&-op=eq&BOOK%20title%20id=T-288&-Script=visited&-find>
> by Barbara Ozieblo I read:
>
> "... and so I present the reader with my version of one of the "six or
> seven thousand selves"--posited by Virginia Woolf in every human
> being--awaiting us in Susan Glaspell."
>
> Can anyone tell me where this reference to biography as illustrating any
> one of a potential "six or seven thousand selves" comes from?
>
> I seem to recall noting it myself ages ago, and I believe it was from "The
> Art of Biography" or "The New Biography" or *Orlando*. At some point
> during revision I cut the reference from my essay, and can't seem to
> relocate it now.
>
> Thanks in advance for the assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bev Rilett
>
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