Virginia Woolf is already a superhero at my house, but she may soon be one on the
commercial market as well.
One day, as I sat at my laptop in a room of my own, my eight-year-old twin grandchildren pulled Virginia Woolf down from her shelf, grabbed Wonder Woman, and had the two battling each other, as well as Spiderman and Aquaman.
When Woolf seemed to be losing against the comic book heroes, I told my grandchildren that she had a superpower of her own: The power of the pen. That stopped them in their tracks.
Now a company called Little Giants is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund a toy line that will include Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Ghandi and Andy Warhol.
Yes, all four figures are men — and three out of four are white. But the company says that if all goes well, it will add Woolf to the lineup, along with Frieda Kahlo.
I want to see that. And maybe my grandchildren will too.
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I would consign the subject of the making Virginia Woolf dolls as a matter to be consigned to the garbage bin – just apply the subject of reading by getting books from the shelf. Much better.