Sussex glamour model Jordan has donned a false nose and wig for a literary photo shoot.

Had they been alive at the same time, Jordan and author Virginia Woolf would have lived about ten miles from each other in the Sussex countryside.

In almost every other way the two women are poles apart. Now the model has imitated the feminist author in a series of pictures.

Jordan, who asked "Virginia who?" after being approached about the pictures, admits she didn't have a clue who Woolf was until a magazine asked her to wear the disguise.

And the silicone-enhanced star's candid response to the new look, which included a frumpy dress and cigarette in hand was: "If I had a nose like this I'd definitely have a nose job."

Jordan, real name Katie Price, who lives in rural Henfield, West Sussex, once said: "Every day I've wanted to get my kit off a bit more," but for once she was fully covered up, although she joked she looked like a librarian.

Better known for her elegant curves than her elegant quotes, she was quick to get out of the frilly dress but said: "I feel ugly but I'd like to put on a skimpy dress and go to London's glitzy China White club still wearing the nose."

The makeover for Closer magazine coincides with renewed interest in Woolf's life following the release of Oscar nominated film The Hours, starring an equally unrecognisable Nicole Kidman - who, like Jordan, wore a fake nose, wig and frumpy dresses for the role, with a cigarette constantly in hand.

Woolf lived in the East Sussex village of Rodmell, near Lewes. Despite intermittent nervous breakdowns she produced a great variety of novels, many of which have become regarded as literary masterpieces.

Suffering from depression, she filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her home, in 1941.