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Day 3 at the Berg: Leads from the curator

Posted in A Room of One's Own, Bloomsbury pacifists, Dreadnought Hoax, tagged , , , on Thursday 9 February 2012| 7 Comments »

Today at the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, I got firsthand help from curator Isaac Gewirtz.

First, he showed me an article he wrote comparing the proof copy of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own to the first published copy. It includes an appendix listing every variant between the recently-acquired proof (long thought to have been lost) and the first published version.

As the article shows, Woolf made significant revisions, many related to her views on war and patriarchy. Dr. Gewirtz’s article was published last year in Woolf Studies Annual Volume 17.

Second, Dr. Gewirtz gave me a printout of a Feb. 4 Guardian article that discusses a newly found letter related to the Dreadnought Hoax in which Woolf and four of her friends impersonated Abbysinian royalty to dupe a British admiral and board a Royal Navy dreadnought ship in 1910.

Written by Horace de Vere Cole, one of the pranksters, the letter is being offered for sale by Rick Gekoski, a London dealer in rare books and manuscripts who is imported from the U.S. The letter is accompanied by an original photograph of the hoaxers.

Third, Dr. Gewirtz told me that the Berg Collection holds one of the few existing photos of the Bloomsbury Group members who participated in the Dreadnought Hoax.

All three pieces of information connect to my research topic, the Bloomsbury pacifists.

Isaac Gewirtz is another reason why I ♥ librarians, including library curators.

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Submissions, latest issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany

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The fall 2012 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany invites brief analyses and explorations of how queer studies can help or has helped illuminate Woolf’s life and work, and vice versa – how Woolf’s work and life nuances or otherwise influences queer studies, broadly conceived.

Send submissions of not more than 2,000 words to Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt at detlofmm@muohio.edu and helt0010@umn.edu by Feb. 15.

Read the newly published issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany (No. 80, Fall 2011). It includes:

  • Christine Froula’s review of The Essays of VW, VI (Random House, Chatto and Windus, Hogarth): pp. 26-28.
  • Roberta Rubenstein’s review of The Edinburgh Companion to VW and the Arts (Edinburgh UP): pp.28-30.
  • Leslie Hankins’ review of VW, Modernity and History (Palgrave Macmillan): pp. 30-31.
  • My review of VW and the Study of Nature (Cambridge UP): pp.31-32.
  • Jane Lilienfeld’s review of A Great Unrecorded History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) : pp.32-33.
  • Vara Neverow’s review of A Room of Their Own (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University): pp. 33-35.

 

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