[Vwoolf] New Yorker essay on VW and Wharton

[Jeannette Smyth]

Thank you, the truth is mighty and it shall prevail!
Jeannette Smyth


On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> VW ack’d on 18 Nov 1920 the receipt of a copy of “The Age of Innocence” in an uncollected letter to Messrs Appleton & Co. (letter pub’d in the “Virginia Woolf Bulletin” (Jan. 2011)).  Stephen Barkway discusses VW’s published comments on Wharton – and Wharton’s irritation – in his accompanying note.
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> Stuart
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> From: Jeannette Smyth
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:51 PM
> To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] New Yorker essay on VW and Wharton
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> This is very, very interesting, thank you for the heads up.
> I have read every word of the diaries and letters at least three times, where VW's casual reading and influences are most frequently to be found. I can’t remembering her mentioning Edith Wharton in any connection, and the author here notes he cannot find any record of VW’s having read Age of Innocence. 
> What interesting ouevres to compare, though. And how interesting Woolf’s contention that Wharton was not a real American — only Walt Whitman, of the fluid gender, was.
> Thank you again.
> Jeannette Smyth
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> On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Emily Kopley <emily.kopley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> This recent essay in The New Yorker makes a good case for VW's thinking of The Age of Innocence as she composed Mrs. Ramsay's death:
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>> http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/virginia-woolfs-anxiety-influence
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>> Best,
>> Emily
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>> Dr. Emily Kopley
>> Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
>> McGill University, Department of English
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