Blogging Woolf

Today would be Virginia Woolf’s 138th birthday. Garrison Keillor features her in today’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” a nice tribute.

But the most high profile tribute on the occasion of her birthday was in 2018, when she was honored by a Google Doodle. Created by London-based illustrator Louise Pomeroy, it generated a lot of publicity for Woolf, prompting a variety of birthday greetings from around the globe.

Links to a few from that year and others are below, along with Keillor’s 2020 tribute.

Jan. 25, 2018 Google Doodle in commemoration of Woolf’s 136th birthday

• In 2017, the Royal Opera House asked for reader reactions to Woolf’s work in conjunction with Wayne McGregor’s ballet Woolf Works.
• In 2018, the LA Times memorialized Woolf in a long article that included this sentence: “A pioneer of stream-of-conciousness writing, Woolf left behind an endlessly influential body of work,” the LA Times in 2018.
• That same year, The Independent published Woolf quotes that pertained to various aspects of life.
• Book Trib celebrated with previews of her 10 greatest works.
• Last year, CR Fashion Book asked us to “Remember when Virginia Woolf Taught Us How to Get the Girl?”
• Also in 2018, Time magazine uploaded a brief video on Woolf titled, “Today Is Virginia Woolf’s 136th Birthday: Here’s What You Should Know About Her.”

Birthday wishes from the past on Blogging Woolf

• Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s 137th birthday with a book bargain and her diary entries
• 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