[Vwoolf] Pllural of "Woolf"?

[Mark Hussey]

I think it was quite common in Bloomsbury. Clive Bell, for example, often notes "Woolves to tea" for example.  Whether it belongs in a scholarly work is, or could be, I suppose, another issue...

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From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Jean Mallinson
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 7:21 PM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Pllural of "Woolf"?

Reading Bill Goldstein's The Wold Broke in Two, his recent book about Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence and E.M Forster and the "Year that changed Literature, I find my  interest engaged by new or forgotten information and fresh insights into the writing lives of these loved and familiar figures but I am disturbed by a small detail: he uses "Woolves", not "Woolfs",  as the plural of "Woolf"    -- not in jest but seriously. Am I right in wincing every time I read this? How could an attentive editor not have noticed and corrected this?

Jean  M.


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