Blogging Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s 136th birthday was a big one. Google Doodle led the way by using its daily doodle to pay homage to her on her special day. The drawing lit a Woolfian wildfire of birthday candles that spread across the globe, with media big and small sharing the news, along with social media users.

Google Doodle in commemoration of Woolf’s 136th birthday

Links to media coverage of the Google Doodle birthday tribute to Woolf

• Google Doodle celebrates Virginia Woolf’s 136th birthday – CBS News
• Virginia Woolf featured in Google Doodle – Jakarta Post
• Today is Virginia Woolf’s 136th birthday. Here’s what you should know about her – Time
• Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf – Los Angeles Times
• Google Doodle Celebrates British Literary Heroine Virginia Woolf – Time
• Virginia Woolf: Google Doodle marks writer’s 136th birthday – The Week UK

Other birthday tributes

• At The Guardian, author Kait Welsh suggested that we celebrate Woolf rather than Burns on Burns Day, as they share the same birthday.
  

  Virginia Woolf taking tea, photograph by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1923

• At The Weekly Standard, Chris Deaton admired Woolf’s extraordinary writing in To the Lighthouse.
• At The Independent, Joe Sommerlad discussed what makes Woolf famous.
• At Quartz, Thu-Huong-Ha extolled the lessons Woolf teaches about how to be a thinking woman.
• Marie Clare shared nine important feminist Woolf quotes from A Room of One’s Own.
• Mental Floss shared some, too.
• At the Deccan Herald, readers were challenged with a Woolf quiz.
• On Facebook, the Great British Tea Party posted an image of Woolf taking tea with Ottoline Morrell.
• Goodreads shared the Google Doodle on its Facebook page.
• Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Facebook page posted a tribute, along with many others.

Google Doodle artist tweeted her thoughts

It was an honour to draw a portrait of Virginia Woolf for today’s google doodle. I added some autumnal leaves, a reoccurring theme in her writing. pic.twitter.com/AnwPg5hEC0

— Louise Z Pomeroy (@LouiseZpomeroy) January 25, 2018

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And Twitter blew up with birthday greetings, including a special one from National Trust Books that featured Monk’s House and another from the National Museum of Women in the Arts that showed Judy Chicago’s preparatory drawings for her Woolf plate in The Dinner Party.

‘I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.’ We couldn’t agree more. Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf! @MonksHouseNT pic.twitter.com/UKs0Kmhn1y

— National Trust Books (@NTBooks) January 25, 2018

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It’s #VirginiaWoolf‘s 136th birthday today! Celebrate with #JudyChicago‘s preparatory drawing for Woolf’s plate… https://t.co/XLYXMIyMCK

— NatlMuseumWomenArts (@WomenInTheArts) January 25, 2018