[Vwoolf] query about VSW letters

[Sarah M. Hall]

 Yes, I thought that was odd: why not get a Woolfian? Because she 'didn’t want people to get bogged down in academia'. That's us told then. She wants people to read the letters 'like a novel'. By complete coincidence, she has written a novel, 'a bisexual twist on a romcom', out next year. Where did she get that idea?

BUT
It might bring a new audience to Woolf, who knows? My view of Woolf might be totally different to someone else's view. And not everyone approaches even literary novelists in a literary fashion. To some people, the novels might just be a good read. (And now the letters too.)
Now, how do I get off this fence?



    On Saturday, 17 April 2021, 15:20:35 BST, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  
 
 I doubt if there’s anything by VW or VSW that Mark hasn’t seen before. I’ve bought a copy – because I thought I ought to.  It has, as everyone knows, an intro by Bechdel.  But who edited (selected) it?  Buried on the verso of the title-p. is the editor’s name, Lily Lindon.  She is employed as a Penguin Random House editor, which doesn’t mean that she is employed to propose editing books herself. See here:https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://beyondabookshelf.co.uk/2021/lily-lindon-vita-and-virginia/What__;!!KGKeukY!inxBQwQz5EAOZcSVhF04MOp_oCybtsHOLn6d63v9ZWGVWGKVLk-ttrYLfiGC1qsFQAyuQur_ZbOi$  she writes here and elsewhere is confusing to anyone who comes with a background in VW & VSW She writes elsewhere:Getting hold of a long-out-of-print copy of the Virginia and Vita letters had become something of a rite-of-passage for modern-day sapphistshttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west-letters-love-affair.html So, forget all that.  The letters and diaries come from previously published editions.  But this is not a reprint of DeSalvo & Leaska. Stuart(Day 396) From: Mark Hussey via Vwoolf Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:44 PMTo: VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [Vwoolf] query about VSW letters 
Does anyone know if the ‘Love Letters’ of Vita S-W and VW with intro by Alison Bechdel recently published by Vintage is any different from the edition published long ago, edited by DeSalvo and Leaska (apart, that is, from the addition of intro by a famous person)?
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