[Vwoolf] "Dress up as a Georgian!"

[Jean Mallinson]

How can  what was real be glimpsed through these charades! Better to 
stay at home and read.

Jean


On 4/9/2018 3:29 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> Article in the TLS 23/3/18, p.17 – title says it all – Coleridge 
> Cottage is now “a tourist attraction for everyone, especially 
> families, whether they are interested in Coleridge or not”.  Chatty 
> notices: e.g. “Sara Coleridge used to draw water from the well, why 
> don’t you too and see how high you can raise the pail?”
> https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/coleridge-cottage
> “The unique memorial site  of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 
> France, razed by one of Hitler’s SS legions in June 1944 and left 
> fossilized in its death throes, has recently been dwarfed by a 
> colossal modern visitor centre, a silo of information screens, which 
> one is obliged to pass through before even entering the site, 
> contaminating the plot ... It seems our imaginations are no longer 
> enough.”
> http://www.oradour.info/images/misc/opening.htm
> Stuart
> *From:* Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Friday, April 6, 2018 8:04 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Feeling old
> In the (first) blog, I think the following is well said:
> “The drive now is for one thing – attracting a young audience. ... The 
> drive to attract younger members to the Brontë Society is a pointless 
> one. We hear people say, echoing the consultants, that the membership 
> is too old – ‘look at the events, look at the meetings, everyone is 
> old!’ In today’s society it has become a crime to be old. Where is the 
> problem in the majority of members being middle aged or older? Yes 
> they will eventually wither and fade from this world, but they will 
> then be succeeded by another generation if middle aged and old society 
> members.”
> There’s far too much worrying in literary societies about attracting 
> young people.
> By contrast, bridge clubs are right to worry.  If they offer classes, 
> they can be successful in attracting (many) new members. 
> Unfortunately, these new members tend to be old, and therefore they 
> are never going to be really good players.  Nothing wrong with that, 
> but where are we going to get the top players of tomorrow?
> Stuart
> *From:* Ellen Moody via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Friday, April 6, 2018 7:40 PM
> *To:* Paula Maggio
> *Cc:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Exploiting Woolf's Name
> Just to say I have found this common behavior in a number of fan 
> groups online (whether it be face-book, or a webring, or some other 
> social media venue). Sometimes the group leader shows some patience 
> and merely censors your email after that, or you can't post, but you 
> have impugned her book.  Also the kind of things done in Woolf's name 
> are common elsewhere.
> A parallel:  a significant brouhaha going on in the Bronte Society 
> because Nick Holland, author of In Search of Bronte, protested what is 
> being done 'in the name" of Emily Bronte; he is being attacked by the 
> celebrity type hired to "celebrate" the events.
> Here is his protest (among other things they are removing genuine 
> artifacts of the Brontes for recreated time capsules):
> http://www.annebronte.org/2017/12/17/emily-bronte-lily-cole-and-the-shame-of-the-bronte-society/
> As you might expect, he is now attacked by Lily Cole for being a snob:
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/lily-cole-bronte-society-resignation-nick-Holland 
> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/lily-cole-bronte-society-resignation-nick-holland>
> Ellen Moody
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Paula Maggio via Vwoolf 
> <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>     After reading the New York Times article about the Facebook group
>     and upcoming book titled What Would Virginia Woolf Do?, I did some
>     looking and wrote a blog post about it. I am so dismayed at the
>     way the writer exploits Woolf's name, as well as her death. Here's
>     the link: https://wp.me/p5Yfi-3kT.
>     After my blog post went live, the group's creator and book's
>     author kicked me out of her Facebook group. I guess she didn't
>     like what I had to say.
>     Paula Maggio
>     Blogging Woolf
>
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