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EDITOR'S FENCE Still, I hope you judge the individual rate of $17 for over 500 pages of articles and reviews reasonable. More than half of our individual subscribers have renewed their subscriptions. I hope those who haven't will have a change of mind. Even our institutional rates remain modest and should not deter nearly 700 colleges, universities and public libraries from subscribing. Please remember, the support of our individual subscribers is crucial to the publication of ELT in its traditional format. Your subscriptions make an all-important difference, and we thank you. Correction in Recent Issue: From Professor M. Dolores Herrero (University of Zaragoza, Spain): "It has been pointed out to me by Professor Barbara Leah Herman (Wellesley College) that I failed to acknowledge a source in my article, Oefiance in Disguises: Mary Ward's Ambivalent Concept of Woman as Reflected in Marcella,' ELT, 38:4 (1995), 445-65. The following words, found in the second half of the long second sentence on page 459, should have appeared in quotes: '[the novel] does not convert and thus reduce the public into the private, but rather grants the private its disturbingly public dimension.' The words were taken from Barbara Leah Harman's article, 'In Promiscuous Company: Female Public Appearance in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South,' Victorian Studies, 31 (1988), 374. My apologies to Professor Harman for this mistake." I Announcements I NEW Summer Seminar: Martha Vicinus will be teaching an NEH summer seminar for college teachers June 10-August 2, 1996, The Construction of the "New Woman' and the "New Man' in the 1890s." The seminar will focus on the varied public debates and literary representations of besieged, triumphant or contradictory masculinities and feminities in the works of such authors as Wilde, Hardy, Shaw, Ibsen, Sarah Grand, and the artist Aubrey Beardsley. Readings will also include pioneering sexologists and eugenicists, as well as modern literary criticism and theories of sexuality. NEH provides a stipend of $4000. Deadline is 1 March 1996. For further information and application forms, please write to Professor Vicinus, English Dept, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045. Email address: vicinus @umich.edu. ELT 39:1 1996 Call for Papers: The Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference will be held at Clemson University, 13-16 June 1996. Its theme is "Virginia Woolf and the Arts." Presentations may focus on any of Woolf s texts and use any critical approach. Proposals are encouraged, as well as proposals for three-person panels, workshops, and discussion groups. Include 15 copies of a 250-word abstract for each paper or presentation and a cover sheet listing all names, addresses, institutional affiliations, phone numbers, title of paper(s) or panel, and format. Postmark deadline: 2/1/96. Professor Wayne Chapman, English Dept, Strode Tower, Box 341503, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1503. Origins of Modernism Series: Garland Publishing welcomes finished , book-length manuscripts on appropriate topics. Initially a onepage resume, along with a table of contents and short biographical note about the author, should be submitted to the general editor of the feries, Todd K. Bender, English Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison , WI 53706. New Journal: Woolf Studies Annual invites articles on the work and life of Virginia Woolf. It intends to represent the breadth and eclecticism or critical approaches to Woolf, and also particularly welcomes new perspectives. Articles should be no longer than 8000 words or 30 pages (letter-quality time only); no identifying references should appear on the paper; a separate sheet with author's name, etc., should accompany the manuscript. Only those submissions with a stamped SAE will be returned . Send three copies and an abstract of up to 150 words to Mark Hussey, English Department, Pace University, One Pace Plaza, New York, NY10038. ...