[Vwoolf] New Yorker essay on VW and Wharton

Jeannette Smyth jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 23 16:48:28 EDT 2014


I’m with you. Trying to be positive. But Wharton is, as the guy points out, a writer of another epoch, as contemporary w/ VW as she might be.

Jeannette Smyth

On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:42 PM, ANNE Fernald [Staff/Faculty [A&S]] <fernald at fordham.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm very interested to know about the letter from Stuart. The truth is, this essay bugs me. I don't think Wharton is a huge influence on Woolf and I am surprised at the level of speculation he permits himself.
> 
> But I'm getting grumpy in my dotage,
> 
> Best,
> 
> Anne
> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jeannette Smyth <jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>  
>> Stuart
>>  
>> 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
>>  
>> 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
>>  
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Emily Kopley <emily.kopley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>>  
>>> 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:
>>>  
>>> http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/virginia-woolfs-anxiety-influence
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Emily
>>> 
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>>> McGill University, Department of English
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