[Vwoolf] Leonard would have approved . . .

[kllevenback at att.net]

Greetings, Suzanne.
 
Just BTW--the director of my dissertation on Virginia Woolf was a Leavisite, George A. Panichas.  He was editor of Modern Age for a while, and has an article available on line--also involving Virginia Woolf.
 
Cheers--
Karen Levenback


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From: Suzanne Bellamy <suzannebellamy at bigpond.com>
To: 'Stuart N. Clarke' <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>; vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Leonard would have approved . . .

Oh Stuart you always impress me but your reading list is a new high. I just love this list of yours.
   I don’t have a list as well organised but realise that I could probably construct one from my journals which I have kept continuously since 1973. I have already written an account of my first experiences with Woolf’s work and ideas in a chapter of the Eileen Barrett and Pat Cramer collection Lesbian Readings from 1998, called “The Pattern Behind the Words.”
 There was one skirmish with Mrs Dalloway at high school in the English Honours class, but alas nothing at University in the embers of the Leavisite dominated English Dept of Sydney University. The real ignition for me happened in the 1970’s in women’s liberation, and much influenced by my great friend the brilliant activist and intellectual Bessie Guthrie who had been Australia’s first woman publisher (modernist poets in the 20’s and 30’s) who worked with us on MeJane, Australia’s first women’s liberation newspaper (1971-74). Bessie Guthrie had read Woolf as the books appeared, had all the early editions and opened all this up to me as a young reader. She died in 1977 just after the first Diary came out. That was the biggest moment for me with Woolf, that diary. It pulled all the reading together. I then made two ABC Radio programmes on Woolf in 1979 and from then on was always engaged with her ideas and work.  
   What fascinates me about the stories on the list is how we take the long journey, renewed by the originating texts and the great scholarship that keeps happening around them. Here I am decades later researching another young Australian woman Nuri Mass who discovered Woolf and wrote a wonderful 180,000 word thesis on Woolf’s novels in 1942 at Sydney University, corresponded with Leonard, had his interest, and then the war cut off all the possibilities for publication. 
   All our stories matter. 
   Suzanne Bellamy 
 
From:vwoolf-bounces+suzannebellamy=bigpond.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+suzannebellamy=bigpond.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart N. Clarke
Sent: Friday, 30 August 2013 6:43 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] Leonard would have approved . . .
 
Except that this list can’t be complete, as I know I read the Bell bio when it came out: Vol. 1 was bought on 12 Oct 1972; Vol. 2 arrived on 6 Dec 1972.
 
VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOKS READ, July 1966–September 1978
 
BOOK STARTED FINISHED 
Between the Acts 9 July 1966 13 July 1966 
The Years 14 July 1966 19 July 1966 
A Haunted House … 19 July 1966 31 July 1966 
Orlando 1 Aug 1966 11 Aug 1966 
The Waves* 20 Aug 1966 24 Aug 1966 
Jacob’s Room 7 Sep 1966 12 Sep 1966 
The Voyage Out 28 Sep 1966 12 Oct 1966 
Night and Day 25 Oct 1966 15 Nov 1966 
The Years* 17 Nov 1966 22 Nov 1966 
Between the Acts* 4 Dec 1966 7 Dec 1966 
Mrs. Dalloway* 24 Apr 1967 4 May 1967 
A Haunted House …* 19 May 1967 23 May 1967 
Jacob’s Room* 30 May 1967 c. 5 June 1967 
The Years* c. 1 July 1967 4 Aug 1967 
Between the Acts* 10 Jan 1968 10 Jan 1968 
Jacob’s Room* 2 Sep 1968 11 Sep 1968 
The Waves* 1 Jan 1969 c. 5 Jan 1969 
The Years* 14 March 1969 28 March 1969 
A Haunted House …* 13 Sep 1969 2 Oct 1969 
Nurse Lugton’s Golden Thimble 14 Nov 1969 14 Nov 1969 
A Haunted House …* c. 2 Nov 1970 c. 17 Dec 1970 
The Waves* c. 10 Sep 1971 21 Sep 1971 
The Years* 6 April 1972 11 April 1972 
Mrs. Dalloway* 14 Sep 1972 4 Oct 1972 
Orlando* c. 2 Jan 1973 ? March 1972 (not finished) 
Mrs Dalloway’s Party … 22 Aug 1973 27 Aug 1973 
Flush* c. 27 April 1974 30 April 1974 
The Voyage Out* 25 Dec 1976 ? Feb 1977 (not finished) 
The Pargiters 15 Sep 1978 16 Sep 1978 
*Re-read
 
Stuart
 
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