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Article: Virginia Woolf Icon.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Virginia Woolf Icon. By BRENDA R. SILVER. (Women in Culture and Society) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xx + 353 pp. $54 (pbk $19; 13.50 [pounds sterling]).
In the centre of St Andrews, Fife, Shelter's window posters advertise that charity's aims. On one of these, a couple of young girls lollop happily on a bed, and the caption explains their pleasure. They have, we are told, 'A room of their own', to provide which is of course Shelter's purpose. It is unlikely that the average passerby will connect this phrase with Virginia Woolf's 1928 tract, and equally unlikely that Shelter's publicity people were all unaware of its origin, but the phrase ...