[Vwoolf] Jane Marcus

Fri May 29 15:12:18 EDT 2015

Among the many eloquent and heartfelt tributes, you've said it best.

Diane Gillespie

From: Laurie Reiche 
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 1:28 AM
To: U V 
Cc: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Jane Marcus

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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    The University of the Peloponnese
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    http://ts.uop.gr/images/files/bs/spiropoulou_bs.pdf
    https://uop-gr.academia.edu/AngelikiSpiropoulou

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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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