Today would have been Virginia Woolf’s 136th birthday, and Google has taken note by creating a Google Doodle in her honor and sharing the evolution of the doodle, along with a map of its global reach.
There’s a YouTube video, too. But be forewarned. The audio track is an annoying electronic voice.
Woolf celebrated in the media
No surprise that the Google Doodle got some good press — from CNET to The Sun to media worldwide — and that the story blew up on Twitter.
Knowing how relevant and immediate Woolf’s writing is, it’s also no surprise that Vox writer Constance Grady connected Woolf to the #MeToo movement. She wrote a piece on the unsettling nature of Woolf’s polemical writing today.
The Independent posted an article about how Woolf, as a pioneering female novelist, revolutionized fiction.
Book launch in Woolf’s honor
Woolf’s accomplishments as a prolific letter writer were noted as well by the launch of the Frances Spalding book The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf. Yesterday Spalding gave a talk about the book and Woolf’s letters at Waterstones on Gower Street in London as part of the launch.
Twitter explosion lauds Woolf
Feliz cumpleaños #VirginiaWoolf pic.twitter.com/aZllRDfl7A
— Benjamín Martínez (@bintercultura) January 25, 2018
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#VirginiaWoolf Grande ! pic.twitter.com/rDRuyamw5D
— Benjamín Martínez (@bintercultura) January 25, 2018
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Remembering Virginia Woolf, the novelist who revolutionised English fiction with her stream of consciousness technique, on her birth anniversary. As a Lit student, I owe her a lot. And I am attending a lecture on her Mrs Dalloway now. pic.twitter.com/bRkodfasEl
— குகன் प्रियदर्शन (@guhan_pr) January 25, 2018
Birthday wishes from the past on Blogging Woolf
- Virginia Woolf’s own diary entries on her birthday
- Virginia Woolf on her birthday, in her diaries
- Woolf sightings on her 134th birthday
- Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf, writer extraordinaire
- A birthday horoscope for Virginia
- Happy 131st birthday, Virginia Woolf
- Around the Web on the occasion of Virginia’s 130th birthday
- Marking Virginia Woolf’s birthday
- Happy birthday, dear Virginia, in music
- Happy birthday, dear Virginia
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