[Vwoolf] [WomenWriters] An online copy of Memoirs of a Novelist?

[Ellen Moody]

Thank you to Stephen. I'll inform my class tomorrow.  I've told me enough
for one day :)  Ellen

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:15 PM Stephen Barkway <sbarkway at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> You should be able to find it in Kobo’s complete Virginia Woolf
> Collection, for less than £1.00 for pretty much everything!  It should be
> listed under VW’s Complete Shorter Fiction.
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> https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?query=Virginia+WOolf
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> Try it . . . I hope it helps.
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> Stephen
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sbarkway=btinternet.com at lists.osu.edu> *On
> Behalf Of *Ellen Moody via Vwoolf
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> Novelist?
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> I'll add this is a four week course and online (remotely -- what a joke
> word), so we cannot have a book like To the Lighthouse or Jacob's Room.  We
> have 3 other texts besides Woolf .... Ellen
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> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:48 PM Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody=
> gmail.com at groups.io> wrote:
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> After four students (these are all older people) declared $17 was too much
> for postage, and someone said she didn't trust the site had the book (!),
> plus in COVID times .... , who knows if it'll come, I sent to them my pdf
> of Louise deSalvo and Susan Squier's edition of The Journal of Mistress
> Joan Martyn, published in Twentieth Century Literature, and asked them
> instead to purchase The Complete Shorter Fiction of VW.  It is in print the
> first 83 plus pages is a reprint of the Memoirs of a Novelist.
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> I wrote this to the class as part of telling them why we are now going to
> do this other book (more variety of course, a good introduction, less
> tendentious I suppose):
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> "Now what is the story behind this apparition of a book (I'll call it):
> several of the stories are about a woman biographer trying to tell the
> story of the life of a woman before the 20th century. What she finds is she
> can find nothing out for real.  Everything said is pious generalities; she
> never did anything, was a pious wife and mother; or the memoir she wrote
> has been lost or destroyed. There is one memoir that is found and that's
> the one I send - it's about a woman who had an arranged marriage and died
> young in childbirth.  I wanted to cover the topic of biography and how and
> why much of women's literature until the mid19th century doesn't exist any
> more.
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> To me it is supremely ironic that the text which narrates as stories why
> we can find out so little that's real about women before the 20th century
> is itself enormously hard to get. An apparition."
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> I looked in my George Mason database and couldn't find it in the online
> texts by Woolf either.
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> Ellen Moody
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> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:23 PM Neverow, Vara S. <
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu> wrote:
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> Heart-breaking that Adelaide expunged the collection. Why?? WHY???
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> Vara
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> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Ellen Moody
> via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
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> Dear fellow Woolfians (is that the phrase), I'm teaching one of Woolf's
> texts this summer:  Memoirs of a Novelist.   While it is available in a
> Hesperus press edition, from a couple of sites, I can't find a good on-line
> text. The loss of the University of Adelaide site hits very hard on on-line
> Woolf texts.
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> Does anyone know of a good on-line copy of this book?
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> I also cc a small list on groups.io
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> Ellen Moody
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