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Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue 66, Fall 2004 Virginia Woolf Miscellany NUMBER 66 FALL/WINTER 2004 TO THE READERS: New Hampshire, where I organized the Seventh The Spring 2004 Virginia Woolf Miscellany was In Memoriam Annual Woolf Conference and was elected as magnificent. I devoured every article of this special Nigel Nicolson Secretary/Treasurer of the IVWS, to Turkey and issue on “Drafting, Editing, Revising.” Reading about Frances Partridge Kenya, where I taught her to ESL students. Now she the experiences of Woolf scholars working in the page 4 is with me in my new position as head of the English archives was a heady experience! I want to commend Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Debra Sims for her superb work as the guest editor. Poised on my office wall, in the form of a 5" x 8" ink See page 3 for information about drawing that has accompanied me since I received This issue returns to the eclectic spirit of the Miscellany. The Art of Exploration, the my PhD, Woolf continues to preside like a reigning th Any reader familiar with Woolf knows that a certain 15 Annual Conference spirit. Like Clark, I am now, most recently, interested measure of eclecticism defines Woolf’s own spirit. As on Virginia Woolf. in the theme and activity of travel in her work. one roves, for example, through her more than 500 essays, one can see her sundry interests outside of her Information about the 20th This issue of the Miscellany demonstrates the passion for literature, including lepidopterology, Century Literature Conference manifold ways that Woolf accompanies, inspires, and cooking, astronomy, history, horticulture, tourism and at the University of Louisville provokes her many readers. Ranging from the travel. As anyone familiar with her biography knows, on page 3 personal to the historic to the academic to their Woolf’s interest in these arenas was more than a relevance to today, the ten articles, taken together, readerly one: she really did like to net butterflies and make this issue truly miscellaneous. In addition to bake bread. To mention her penchant for butterflies CFP for MLA 2005 the Clark essay cited above, you will have the See page 34 for details. and bread is to suggest that she had a range of hobbies, opportunity to read about Suzette Henke’s and she did. Yet, for Woolf, all that life had to consanguinity with Woolf, an affinity deeply felt offer was not just a smorgasbord of hobbies, but during her wedding that took place in Dublin this life itself. Life inhered in its variety. Many of the past Bloomsday on June 16, right before this year’s contributors to Joan Russell Noble’s Recollections VWM Spring 2005 Woolf conference. Roberta Rubenstein continues the of Virginia Woolf remark on Woolf’s insatiable Susan Wegener will be the editor for archival theme of the previous issue in her work on curiosity in everything; “no human experience the Spring 2005 Miscellany. The archival research and Russian writers. Karen was considered by her too trivial to be interesting” topic is Orlando and the submission Levenback’s “Virginia Woolf and Institutional (128), noted Nigel Nicolson. Wherever Woolf date has been extended to Tuesday, Memory” is an examination of another set of traveled, she was intensely absorbed in the life March 15, 2005. Electronic archives, those of the International Virginia Woolf submissions are preferred. Please around her; as Vita Sackville-West writes, “[a] fair send inquiries and submissions to Society. Jeremy Lawson’s interdisciplinary approach in a French village, roundabouts, shooting- [email protected] or to explores the disconnectedness of Clarissa and galleries, lions and gipsies giving a performance Susan Wegener, 13 Bishop Street, Septimus in terms of atomic and surface theories of together, stalls with things to buy; all was sheer New Haven, CT 06511. matter. David Leon Higdon, Robert Preissle, Matt fun” (Noble 136). Laufer, and Irena Ksiezopolski offer deconstructive readings as they ask us to rethink or take notice of Woolf herself, as this issue will show, travels with VWM Fall 2005 overlooked questions or characters. Higdon asks us, her readers in a variety of ways; with our diversity Mark Hussey will edit the Fall 2005 what kind of religious zealot is Doris Kilman? of experiences, we can always find something to Miscellany. The topic is: Critical Preissle notes that very little critical attention has relate to in Woolf and her writing. In her essay Amnesias and Genealogies: been given to the possibility that Orlando is in all “The Traveling Self,” included in this issue, Hilary Acknowledging the Past in likelihood pregnant in the nineteenth century, even Clark refers to a “protean self” that haunts Woolf’s Contemporary Woolf Studies, and before she meets Shel. Laufer repeats the question, the deadline for submissions is writing. Woolf herself is a protean self shaping Monday, August 15, 2005. what about the Jews?, that appears in Between the and reshaping itself in the lives of her readers. Submissions should be no longer Acts, written at beginning of the Jewish Holocaust. Woolf’s self certainly figures and refigures itself than 1000 words. Please send Ksiezopolski reminds us that Woolf’s secondary in my own life. Starting at the age of seventeen, inquiries to [email protected], or characters function as more than props; on the when I read “The Yellow Dress,” Woolf guided to Mark Hussey, English contrary, they “seem to be very real, with a whole me through graduate school, when I wrote my Department, Pace University, One world of their own.” Finally, Eileen Barrett reminds dissertation on her role as a literary journalist and Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038. us of the continuing relevance of Three Guineas started my membership in the then Virginia Woolf today in her update and expansion of “Woolf’s facts For submission guidelines see Society. She accompanied me on my journeys to of education, property, and war . on the global page 33. -1- status in the real world of patriarchy today.” Written before this last TABLE OF CONTENTS presidential election, Barrett’s essay is all the more timely as we enter a To the Readers Jeanne Dubino 1 new era of retrenchment in the United States. 15th Annual Conference CFP 3 As we consider the way Barrett is updating Woolf’s political agenda, let us return to the theme of variety that characterizes this issue. For Woolf, IVWS at Louisville 2005 3 multiplicity is a kind of politics, a politics set in opposition to Memories of London in Summer 2004 Leslie Hankins 3 monotonous oneness, compulsory unanimity, which she repeatedly links to war-mongering. In Three Guineas, for example, the speaker refuses to Remembering Nigel Nicolson Katherine Hill-Miller 4 join a male war-mongering society, for it would compel her and all women to “merge our identity in yours; follow and repeat and score still Nigel Nicolson and the VWSGB Stephen Barkway 4 deeper the old worn ruts in which society, like a gramophone whose My Memories of Frances Susan Fox 5 needle has stuck, is grinding out with intolerable unanimity ‘Three hundred millions spent upon arms’” (105). For Woolf, the horror lies in The Traveling Self in Virginia Woolf’s Hilary Clark 6 not just a monstrous military budget spent on death-dealing weaponry, “Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car ” but in anything that would smother life in all its diversity under a blanket of sameness. We can imagine that Woolf was thinking of herself as she Bloomsday to Bloomsbury— Suzette Henke 8 describes Peter Walsh’s reaction to the soldiers marching past him, “past A Memoir in Three Acts every one, in their steady way, as if one will worked legs and arms Virginia Woolf, Archival Research, Roberta Rubenstein 10 uniformly, and life, with its varieties, its irreticences, had been laid under and the Russian Writers a pavement of monuments and wreaths and drugged into a stiff yet staring corpse by discipline” (MD 76-77). In “The Mark on the Wall” Virginia Woolf and Institutional Memory: Karen Levenback 11 the “military sound” of the word “generalization” is “enough”: “It The Evolution of the [I]VWS Archives recalls leading articles, cabinet ministers—a whole class of things indeed Atomic and Surface Theories of Matter in Jeremy Lawson 13 which, as a child, one thought the thing itself, the standard thing, the real Mrs. Dalloway: A Comparative Study of thing, from which one could not depart save at the risk of nameless Clarissa and Septimus damnation” (41). The Churchly Doris Kilman David Leon Higdon 14 To espouse variety when one is adjured to think only of “the thing itself, Society’s Child: Orlando’s Son Robert Preissle 15 the standard thing”—when, increasingly in the US, difference of opinion is equated with unorthodoxy and even treason—is to be bold. Following VWM Subscription Form 16 the presidential election, the readers and columnists of my local Back to Bloomsbury Canvas Bags 17 newspaper repeatedly threaten, “get on board with George Bush or else.” In times of war, as Woolf knew, this pressure becomes coercion. To Photo Gallery of Back to Bloomsbury 18 oppose this coercion, she wrote, “needs courage” (TG 128). Woolf herself demonstrated courage by celebrating life’s irreticences and And What About the Jews? Matt Laufer 22 differences. We honor her courage as we pay varied and loving attention Props and Personages: The Significance Irena Ksiezopolski 23 to the variety in her own works. of the Secondary Characters in Mrs. Dalloway Jeanne Dubino The Value of Three Guineas in the Eileen Barrett 25 Twenty-First Century Southeastern Louisiana University Editors of the VWM 28 Works Cited Noble, Joan Russell.
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