[Vwoolf] Google Alerts!--the QR on the bust in Tavistock Square, the "Upmarket" gardeners, the "wokerati, " and Woolf Works

Thu Jul 4 12:11:11 EDT 2024

Thank you for sharing these, Vara. Would also be curious to read the explanations that come up when the QR codes are scanned. Has anyone scanned them? Is the text copy-able/paste-able?

(Btw, not convinced launching counterattacks at a “wokerati” is the right tact here…)

Ben

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 7:16 AM
To: vwoolf listerve <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Google Alerts!--the QR on the bust in Tavistock Square, the "Upmarket" gardeners, the "wokerati, " and Woolf Works
And. . . one more. . . written by Emma Woolf. https: //www. telegraph. co. uk/news/2024/06/29/wokerati-have-ruined-a-statue-of-my-great-aunt-virginia/ The wokerati have ruined a statue of my great-aunt Virginia Woolf. She was no bigot The writer is accused
And...one more...written by Emma Woolf.

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Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.

Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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From: Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
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To: vwoolf listerve <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Google Alerts!--the QR on the bust in Tavistock Square, the "Upmarket" gardeners, the "wokerati," and Woolf Works

Greetings to all,

Four interesting articles....See below.

Cheers,
Vara

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Digital addition part of scheme by London’s Camden council to address connections between monuments and “racism, slavery, imperialism’
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Outdoor activities offered Bloomsbury’s women welcome respite from their indoor pursuits, writes Sophie Barling
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Labour-run Camden Council added the digital tag on the famed writer's monument in Bloomsbury, central London , which outlines Woolf's 'imperialist attitudes'.
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Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.

Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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