[Vwoolf] vermin

[Jean Mills]

Thank you for this, Mark; it's maddening to see these kinds of "quotes"
which aren't really quotes at all, then, be repeated as "facts." It's
relentless and exhausting, so thanks for doing that work. - Jean

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> With so many Woolfians in the UK recently for the Sussex conference, some
> may have heard a programme on BBC Radio 4 ('Three Transformations of
> Virginia Woolf'). In the 2nd episode, broadcast on Tuesday July 8, Alison
> Light, speaking
> With so many Woolfians in the UK recently for the Sussex conference, some
> may have heard a programme on BBC Radio 4 ('Three Transformations of
> Virginia Woolf'). In the 2nd episode, broadcast on Tuesday July 8, Alison
> Light, speaking about Woolf's relations with servants, said that she uses
> the word 'vermin' in connection with servants. This is no more true than
> Merve Emre's claim in her annotated *Mrs Dalloway *that Woolf used the
> word "coolies" "liberally" in her diary (it's not used there at all).
> 'Vermin' and 'verminous' appear in a number of instances in Woolf's writing
> but not describing servants. Ever. This is how rumors start!
>
> (My thanks to Marielle O'Neill for searching the online complete works
> before I could get back to my CD-Rom, where I confirmed the above!)
>
>
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-- 
Jean Mills (she, her, hers)
Associate Professor & Chair
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.03
New York, NY 10019

Selected Publications:
"Feminist Theory" in *The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf*, ed. by Anne
Fernald, Oxford University Press, 2021.

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*Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger *by Jane Marcus; Edited and with an
Introduction and Afterword by Jean Mills. Clemson University Press, Fall,
2020
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"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and
the Heresy of War" in *Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First
World War *(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
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*Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
Classicism *(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
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Editor-in-Chief, *Feminist Modernist Studies*

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