[Vwoolf] Woolf/de Beauvoir

[Pat Laurence]

Dear Alice,
You might also consult Deirdre Bair’s biography of Simone deBeauvoir (1990).
Pat Laurence

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 8:14 PM Cheryl Mares via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> According to the interview with de Beauvoir in the Spring/Summer 1965
> Paris Review (Issue #34), she had a high regard for A Room of One’s Own,
> also read Orlando and Mts. Dalloway, didn’t care for The Waves, and found
> the diaries “fascinating, but too foreign” and too “literary.” She was
> “very, very fond of her book on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” Woolf “one of
> the women writers who ... interested her most.” She read her work in
> English.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 16, 2020, at 12:57 PM, Alice E. Staveley via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>  Dear Woolfians,
>
> I was having lunch with a colleague in political science last week who's
> writing a book on political ethics which will include a chapter on Woolf.
> She asked me if I knew whether or not Simone de Beauvoir read Woolf or
> referenced her directly, and my first thought was ‘I’ve read the answer to
> that on the Woolf lists’!  But I didn’t want to pass off any half
> remembered knowledge without reaching out to the community and getting my
> facts right.  If anyone could help me out, that’d be wonderful. Also, of
> course, if you know of scholarship putting the two in dialogue.
>
> Thanks
> Alice
>
> Alice Staveley
> Senior Lecturer
> Department of English
> Stanford University
> Director | Honors English
> Director | Digital Humanities Minor
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