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Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies by Kore Schroder, Leena

“…The Abbey wax figures fascinated Virginia Woolf throughout her life and make multiple cameo appearances in her work. The article centres on the historiographical strategies of her 1928 essay, ‘Waxworks at the Abbey’, in order to show how Woolf reconfigures history in ways which anticipate its ultimate embodiment in the character Eliza Clark in the 1941 Between the Acts. …”
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