[Vwoolf] BL Discovering Literature - disappeared?

Wed Jun 25 12:05:33 EDT 2025

True. But it’s better than nothing and better dreaming about accessing Woolf's physical notebooks that probably are buried somewhere in the intestines of the BL and cannot be extracted.
I do have the horrendously expensive edition (I bought at a massive discount at the DallowayDay event in 2019 and dragged it home in a carryon bag).
Vara

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

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From: Joshua Phillips <joshua.phillips at ell.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] BL Discovering Literature - disappeared?

It does, though it doesn’t provide much in the way of useful apparatus such as notebook division or even page numbers. Nor does it reproduce material from the Common Reader drafts in the same notebooks. I’ve used it for teaching before but have found it of limited use for scholarship.

And that’s not mentioning SP only printing a run of 1,000, at luxury coffee-table book prices…

Josh

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 16:31
To: Sarah M. Hall <smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk>, vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>, Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson at columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] BL Discovering Literature - disappeared?

Dear all, Doesn’t the 2019 SP edition of 'The Hours'/Mrs Dalloway rely on the three notebooks held in the British Library archives? Vara Vara Neverow (she/her/hers) Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program Managing

Dear all,

Doesn’t the 2019 SP edition of 'The Hours'/Mrs Dalloway rely on the three notebooks held in the British Library archives?

Vara

Vara Neverow

(she/her/hers)

Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Managing 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 Paugusett and Quinnepiac peoples.

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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 10:32:36 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>; Edward Mendelson <edward.mendelson at columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] BL Discovering Literature - disappeared?

How much devastation that hacker (group of hackers) has wreaked on the world of scholarship through the British Library fiasco. And to what end? The only relevant result I found was Vara Neverow's 2018 post on this list, which contains the weblinks

How much devastation that hacker (group of hackers) has wreaked on the world of scholarship through the British Library fiasco. And to what end?

The only relevant result I found was Vara Neverow's 2018 post on this list, which contains the weblinks to the pages, and would be incredibly useful if only the pages were still available:

https://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/2018-January/002633.html 

There's a list on the BL site of 'What's currently available':

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available__;!!KGKeukY!wM5gP_f4gtTj1MwsnLyYAhAlqTbKCZI-zXGOWavBbhqm2998DNdIuaA1A2OOO7i2oZSwq8QvR71fDL5ntgRC-MhJjWP_$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bl.libguides.com/currently-available__;!!KGKeukY!2kRxx1lLPBG3HhYoUui_T_OgPKmWQ9-HnQuVdyKBBADA2hHPqjS8CHc1FgUs4gO67Fc3s5OVlBrzzjcvFCeyMdHI$>

Good luck, Edward.

Sarah

Sarah M. Hall
Executive Council
Virginia Woolf Society of GB
Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk
Facebook: @VWSGB
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On Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 14:49:07 BST, Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

Some years ago (before the destructive hack) the British Library posted an extraordinary set of pages headed “Discovering Literature” that included, among many other things, images of the three Mrs Dalloway notebooks. That whole set of pages

Some years ago (before the destructive hack) the British Library posted an extraordinary set of pages headed “Discovering Literature” that included, among many other things, images of the three Mrs Dalloway notebooks. That whole set of pages seems to have disappeared, and the images seem to be inaccessible on archive.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KGKeukY!2FTfyK1HTbhJ9QoC-w6rHqk68RWV6ipKMEI-_X3QwvmP9DWUcS1YXyd_uhl3gyPa2uLrWrB0rba4WTaGJMeE8g-2_1x34rAA8qs$>. Does the site exist in any form? And are the images accessible anywhere? Many thanks for any information.

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