[Vwoolf] Fw: Virginia Woolf, Syvia Plath, and a decommissioned lighthouse (Belle Tout)

Diana Swanson dswanson at niu.edu
Fri Apr 14 13:18:02 EDT 2017


I think this message got bounced back from the listserv; am trying again.

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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf, Syvia Plath, and a decommissioned lighthouse (Belle Tout)


My colleague, Dr. Amy Newman, offers this information.

"Jude Rawlins, in a book called Cul de Sac, has a note on her visiting that very lighthouse, although she doesn't cite the source.  I believe that might be the 'solitary' reference online to which the original post refers, too.  I can't find anything in the journals but I will keep looking...."

If Amy finds out anything else, I will share it with the list.

all best,
Diana

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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf, Syvia Plath, and a decommissioned lighthouse (Belle Tout)

Dear Amanda, Karen, and All --

At least we can say that Plath would have known how important Beachy Head is in women's literary history: Romantic poet Charlotte Smith is equally famous for her long poem Beachy Head (see here<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52387> and here<http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/SmitCBeach.htm>) and for Elegiac Sonnets, which includes such melancholy poems as the  “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex”<http://www.bartleby.com/270/1/299.html> and “On Being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.”<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51893>

Best,
Emily


On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Amanda Golden <amandapgolden at gmail.com<mailto:amandapgolden at gmail.com>> wrote:
I do not believe Plath visited Sussex at that time. I am not sure I have seen evidence that she
visited Susex at all. She did visit Cornwall late in her life.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
New York Institute of Technology
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Editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton<http://upf.com/book.asp?id=GOLDE004> (UPF, 2016)
Book Review Editor of Woolf Studies Annual

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