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Influence and recognition

The work has been the subject of numerous scholarly writings, including detailed treatment in multiple works on Virginia Woolf.^[2] An "annotated" edition has been published to facilitate critical reading of the text.

The novel's title has also come to stand for women's writing generally in some senses, as one of the most famous works by a woman author very directly treating gender.^[3] For example, a project on the history of women's writing in the British Isles was named after the book.^[4]