It is Virginia Woolf’s 143rd birthday. But I am not the only one thinking of her today. Here are a few photos and posts being shared by others online in honor of her Jan. 25, 1882, birthday.
Annual Birthday Lecture
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain hosts an annual lecture in honor of Woolf’s birthday. This year’s, held today, featured Eleanor McNees speaking on “Double Vision: Woolf’s Reading of Hardy and Meredith Through Leslie Stephen’s Eyes.”
Eleanor McNees is pictured cutting Virginia’s birthday cake, decorated with a photo of a young Virginia with her father, Leslie Stephen, at the Annual Birthday Lecture sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. McNees’s topic was “Double Vision: Woolf’s Reading of Hardy and Meredith Through Leslie Stephen’s Eyes.”
Artist pamphlet on Virginia Woolf in the city
Artist Louisa Albani’s new beautifully illustrated pamphlet, “Virginia Woolf in the City: Oxford Street Tide,” became available today, in honor of Woolf’s birthday.
More Facebook posts noting Woolf’s birthday
French magazine cover features Woolf
Read more birthday posts
- Virginia Woolf’s birthday, 142 years later
- How Virginia Woolf celebrated her birthdays — 1897-1941
- Happy 139th birthday, Virginia Woolf!
- “Untidy” deaths of Mansfield, Woolf topic of birthday lecture
