I have a large home. With lots of stuff. And though I feel obliged to regularly dispose of things — pawning them off on friends, donating them to charity shops, dropping them into the recycle bin — sometimes I just can’t resist adding a new possession. Particularly when it comes to Virginia Woolf.
I searched her name on Amazon this week and found this candle. I was tempted to buy it until I found what I considered a better one on Etsy.
Virginia Woolf Sainted Writers Secular Prayer Candle
Called the Virginia Woolf Sainted Writers Secular Prayer Candle, it comes with your choice of prayer printed on the back, a book charm fastened around the top, and an unscented soy candle that burns for up to 80 hours inside.
I immediately placed my order. It was impossible to resist our beloved Virginia dressed in a nun’s habit, holding a copy of the Penguin edition of A 
Room of One’s Own, and this sales pitch:
Before you write, seek passion and clarity from Saint Virginia by lighting this unscented white prayer candle.
Your choice of prayers
Currently available prayers, copied from the Etsy shop web page of Sainted Writers owner Michelle, are:
✑ prayer for essay writers
✑ prayer for readers
✑ prayer for creative writers
✑ prayer for prelims exam success
✑ prayer for dissertation writers
✑ prayer for thesis writers
✑ your choice of text (please leave a note with up to 100 words and any special instructions)
I chose the Reader’s Prayer. May it bring me illumination in these troubled times.
Alice Lowe
Catherine
Kaylee Baucom
Paula Maggio
Stefano Rozzoni
seanmcphail
suzannebellamy1
veronikakra
Vara Neverow
William Patrick Wend
Zoe Wolstenholme
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