[Vwoolf] Woolf/de Beauvoir

[Rishona Zimring]

In case anyone wants a quick reference to a quotation of VW in S de B:

>From *The Second Sex*, p. 539-540. (Vintage paperback 1989). Chapter XVIII
"Social Life"

But social life does have aspects more attractive than this tiresome
importance of conventional duties. A reception involves something more than
merely welcoming others into a woman's own home; it changes the dwelling
into a domain of enchantment; the social function is at once a party and a
ceremony...The idea is to devise gracious gifts, which, while supplying the
needs of the guests, anticipate their desires; the repast is changed into a
mysterious ceremony. Virginia Woolf emphasizes this aspect in a passage
from *Mrs. Dalloway*:

And so there began a soundless and exquisite passing to and from through
swing doors...

etc.

warm wishes,

Rishona Zimring

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 1:39 AM Helen Southworth via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Alice and All,
>
>
> Please also see Joshua Kotin's wonderful Princeton-based Shakespeare and
> Co. digital project for de Beauvoir's member library card (of 1937-1940)
> which includes *The Years*!
>
> https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/members/beauvoir-simone-de/cards/8fe6f441-b5e8-4bca-b3a3-d2c006ae3bed/
>
> Also for more on Woolf and de Beauvoir: Pierre Eric Villeneuve's chapter
> in Caws and Luckhurst's *The Reception of VW in Europe* and my own on the
> French reception of Woolf in *The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of
> VW and Colette.*
>
> And:
> Humm, M. 2007.
> *Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf and the Maternal. in: Giorgio, A and
> Waters, J (ed.) Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and
> Legacy Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 170-185 *
>
> Best,
> Helen
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Pat Laurence
> via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 16, 2020 9:22 PM
> *To:* Cheryl Mares <mares at sbc.edu>; VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <
> VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf/de Beauvoir
>
> 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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Rishona Zimring
Professor of English
Lewis & Clark College
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