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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040627
Author:Frances Spalding

No other 20th-century writer has been so thoroughly described, analysed, critiqued, satirised and appropriated as Virginia Woolf. Her work has incited shelf- loads of books and thousands of articles, written from a dazzling array of perspectives. This writer has become, in the words of Helen Dudar, "the Marilyn Monroe of American academia", both an industry and a cultural icon.

This notion is brilliantly explored in Virginia Woolf Icon (1999) by Brenda R Silver, who is particularly alert to the gender and sexuality issues that played into Woolf's posthumous reputation. With reference to ...

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