[Vwoolf] Jane Marcus

[K L Levenback]

Thank you, Laurie.

Sent from my iPad

> On May 29, 2015, at 4:28 AM, Laurie Reiche <lauriereiche at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A poem that sprang to mind….Laurie
> 
> Meditation in Tavistock Square 
> in Front of the Gan Statue On the Deaths 
> Of Shari Benstock & Jane Marcus
> 
> Me and Ghandi and the sky, our laps full of treasures, mine
> with a notebook full of words, his with the offerings 
> of a god: dried roses once fresh, leaves
> once alive.
> 
> How quickly life passes.
> 
> In two days two brilliant scholars died, 
> Feminists of the Second Wave, 
> towering waves themselves 
> who spread their essences like molten silver 
> across the shore of our lives: 
> Shari Benstock and Jane Marcus.
>  
> Say their names. Say their names, again.
>  
> In my imagination I already see them 
> as statues in a park, their laps full of roses 
> and there's a plaque that says: 
> "Read Their Books!" 
> Yes, perhaps a tactless order, a pressing command 
> because our lives are fleeting and one must take a stand for 
> cut roses perish in less than a day but words--
> well, words we know are the engraved, 
> perpetually living in our eyes and minds, 
> beyond decay.
> 
> (Laurie Lessen Reiche- May 29, 2015)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 29, 2015, at 8:35 AM, U V <representationmatters at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is terrible news -- my very, very best to those who knew her well. Her work has been magnificent; and the generosity and real, insightful interest with which she engaged inexperienced young scholars, and normalized that interest, was wonderful. And she coined "the Virginia Woolf Soap Operas"! She will be missed so much.
>> 
>>> On 29 May 2015 at 06:40, Angeliki Spiropoulou <angelikispiropoulou at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Very sad news indeed. Her work is foundational.
>>> 
>>> Angeliki
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: millsj7 at gmail.com
>>> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 00:26:34 -0400
>>> To: cfroula at northwestern.edu
>>> CC: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Jane Marcus
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Devastating. Jane Marcus was a force to be reckoned with. And as someone once said of Jane Ellen Harrison, another of our intellectual "unmet" mentors and friends...she was a giant upon whose shoulders we all stand. Jane Marcus asked the important questions. Go back. Re-read her. All of it. There are gems to be mined there that will guide you, test you, frustrate you, but demand that you rethink possible. Her work will remain generative, bold, and meaningful to our own questions and research as we stay up late reading and writing forgetful of the tea kettle on the stove ...but somehow certain that we're on to something, something that matters. 
>>> 
>>> Jean Mills
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On May 28, 2015, at 11:40 PM, Christine Froula <cfroula at northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What very sad news. Jane's pioneering scholarship and devoted teaching as well as her kindness and generosity have encouraged and inspired countless scholars of Woolf, Elizabeth Robins, feminism, modernism, and much more, and the enduring legacy of her own work will keep her spirit alive. We will miss you, Jane. 
>>> 
>>> Christine
>>> 
>>> n 5/28/2015 9:54 PM, Linda Camarasana wrote:
>>> Dear fellow Woolfians—
>>> 
>>> It is with extraordinary sadness that I convey the news that Jane Marcus has died. 
>>> 
>>> Those of us who studied with Jane are reeling from the news, announced today by her son Ben. 
>>> 
>>> --Linda
>>> 
>>> Linda Camarasana
>>> Associate Professor, English Department
>>> Coordinator of Writing Programs 
>>> SUNY College at Old Westbury 
>>> Old Westbury, NY 11568
>>> CamarasanaL at OldWestbury.edu
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Urvashi Vashist
>> Department of English Language and Literature
>> University College London
>> 
>> Email: urvashi.vashist.09 at ucl.ac.uk
>> Phone: +44 (0) 7999 052989
>> 
>> 
>> "Tonight I think
>>  no poetry
>>  will serve."
>> 
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