Woe is me. I was so looking forward to seeing Virginia Woolf make a cameo appearance during the fourth season of Downton Abbey, but after reading this news from the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s Facebook page, my hopes are dashed:
I have bad news for #Downton Abbey fans, and for those people who aren’t fans but were going to watch the episode of Downton featuring Christina Carty playing#VirginiaWoolf (see 17 Sep post). Unfortunately this will not be the case after all. I contacted ITV to find out which episode ‘Woolf’ would appear in and was passed to Jessica Morris of Milk Publicity, who told me: ‘The character [Michael] Gregson is part of the London set of which Laura Carmichael [who plays Lady Edith] has spoken about in her interviews. There was a scene with Christina as Virginia Woolf but sadly, for editing reasons, as happens with all TV shows and movies, didn’t work so was cut.’ A great disappointment for Woolfians and, presumably, for Christina Carty.
The news generated comments on the page, which the society promised to send along to the show’s 
I had heard the rumor that Woolf’s appearance had been cut days ago, but I didn’t want to believe it. The society’s post makes it official.
I just hope the Woolf footage somehow makes its way onto YouTube or some other online video outlet.
