[Vwoolf] Stuart N. Clarke

Wed Feb 12 11:15:44 EST 2025

Dear Stephen, dear Woolfians,

This is such very sad news. Stuart was such a gift to our community. As
Kathryn and others have noted, he managed to combine a powerful tenacity to
getting the details right with a tremendous generosity. That's an uncommon
combination, and in Stuart it was a delight! I, too, have benefited from
his knowledge on many occasions.

I miss him already.

In sympathy,

Anne
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM kathryn simpson via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Stephen, Thank you for letting us know about Stuart’s death - a very
> sad loss. Stuart’s encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Woolf was
> legendary and his terrier-like tenacity to find and share the exact detail,
> quotation and point of reference
>
> Dear Stephen,
>
> Thank you for letting us know about Stuart’s death - a very sad loss.
>
> Stuart’s encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Woolf was legendary and his
> terrier-like tenacity to find and share the exact detail, quotation and
> point of reference was a quality I admired and benefitted from many times.
> His determination to complete his last project with you is testimony to his
> passionate commitment and to his courage.
>
> He will be very much missed.
>
> Kathryn
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 14:18, Stephen Barkway via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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