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Article: On taking the Woolf out of novelist Virginia Woolf.(Books)(On Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2000
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On a recent snowbound afternoon, my two young children were watching cartoons when a bespectacled wallaby named Virginia Woolf appeared on the screen. At the time it seemed an eerie coincidence since I was reading "Virginia Woolf Icon" for this column, a book that begins with Dartmouth professor Brenda Silver's assertion that "Virginia Woolf is everywhere." Even, apparently on the Cartoon Network. The author goes on to note "that more picture postcards of Woolf are sold in the National Portrait Gallery in London than of anybody else." And as was recalled recently in a review here of Peter Dally's book about the writer's manic depression, Virginia Woolf's life, not the ...
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