Eleanor Crook is creating a life-sized Virginia Woolf that will be presented, fully dressed, inside a room of her own — a wooden wardrobe.
The finished wax work Woolf will be placed in the foyer of the newly refurbished Virginia Woolf building at 22 Kingsway at King’s College, London.
by Lady Ottoline Morrell, vintage snapshot print, June 1923
Crook, a sculptor and medical artist, will dress her creation in clothing modeled after the dress, shawl and hat Woolf wore in a 1923 photograph taken by Lady Ottoline Morell. It pictures Woolf sitting side by side on a garden bench with Lytton Strachey. She is smoking.
According to Crook’s website, she was asked by the historian Dr. Ruth Richardson and by King’s College London to make the wax version of Woolf.
You can view her progress on the sculpture by viewing photos Crook has included on her website. She expects the work to be finished in October.
Woolf was a student at the former King’s Ladies’ Department where she took classes in Greek, Latin, history and German between 1897 and 1902.
The #waxwork #VirginiaWoolf is getting cast tonight https://t.co/7Jc4utpTbi pic.twitter.com/QW15W4YJmw
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) October 1, 2015
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Progress on the #VirginiaWoolf #waxwork , sneaking up on a likeness, pressing on. http://t.co/7Jc4utpTbi pic.twitter.com/lBHbYvOMZM
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) September 30, 2015
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Early stages of modelling on the #VIrginiaWoolf #waxwork for @KingsCollegeLon pic.twitter.com/YzGVdHNaX0
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) September 27, 2015