[Vwoolf] Stuart N. Clarke

[Susan Elizabeth Wegener]

Thank you for letting us know of this sad loss, Stephen. Stuart was a major presence in Woolf scholarship, and I cherish my memories of his kindness, open spirit, and wonderful sense of humor.

Susan



Susan Wegener, PhD

she/hers

Instructor, Purdue University Department of English

swegener at purdue.edu

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I am deeply saddened to have to inform the Virginia Woolf community of the death of Stuart Clarke yesterday, 10 February 2025. Many of you will know that after having been diagnosed with cancer three years ago, the treatment he received enabled



I am deeply saddened to have to inform the Virginia Woolf community of the death of Stuart Clarke yesterday, 10 February 2025. Many of you will know that after having been diagnosed with cancer three years ago, the treatment he received enabled him to carry on being active both on this list, and in his own Woolf related studies which included a volume of uncollected letters of Virginia Woolf, upon which he and I collaborated and were relieved to be able to complete for submission to the publishers before work became impossible for him.



Many of you will have been helped by, or engaged with, Stuart over many decades. He had a lifelong interest in Woolf from when he was a young teenager still at school and he grew to have a seemingly endless, encyclopaedic knowledge of her life and work. His vigorous recall of facts and quotations made him an invaluable presence at the many lectures and conferences he attended over the years. Those of you who never met him in person but only through his lively contributions to this list—or to the books he edited and articles he wrote—will have glimpsed his meticulous mind at work.



To honour Stuart’s dedication to the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, of which he was a founder member, we intend to produce a supplement with the next issue of the Bulletin, containing pieces written by his fellow Woolfians in appreciation of his huge contribution to Woolf Studies over the years. If you would like to send a tribute, whether you are a member of the VWSGB or not, please ensure it reaches us by 1 March 2025: bulletinvwsgb at gmail.com<mailto:bulletinvwsgb at gmail.com>



Stuart’s absence from international Woolf Studies will leave a huge and unfillable gap and we, his friends and colleagues, will all miss him terribly.



Stephen Barkway
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