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How Virginia Woolf celebrated her birthdays — 1897-1941

Posted in diaries, Happy birthday, tagged , , on Wednesday 25 January 2023| Leave a Comment »

Today is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. She would have been 141. And as is customary at this time, I am poring over the eight published diary entries she wrote on or near her birthday between 1897 and 1941. In 2016, I shared all of the published diary entries she made on her birthday, a post so […]

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Virginia Woolf’s 1941 post-birthday musings echo our pandemic mood

Posted in coronavirus, pandemic, Woolf's birthday, World War II, tagged , , , , on Tuesday 25 January 2022| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf would have been 140 today. So today, as we near the end of year two of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems fitting to look at the moody diary entry she wrote a day after her fifty-ninth birthday in 1941, when she, Leonard, and the rest of the world were living through year two […]

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Happy 139th birthday, Virginia Woolf!

Posted in Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Woolf birthday, tagged , , on Monday 25 January 2021| Leave a Comment »

The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain began its celebration of our beloved author’s 139th birthday virtually on Saturday via Zoom with Professor Maggie Humm’s talk on “The significance of birthdays to Virginia Woolf.” Members toasted Woolf and shared favorite quotes from her work. The Society also shared this quote and photo on its Facebook […]

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Celebrate Virginia Woolf’s birthday with an online conversation between the Woolfs

Posted in art, events, Woolf birthday, tagged , , on Sunday 24 January 2021| 1 Comment »

Tomorrow, Jan. 25, is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. And you can celebrate by joining a conversation about her life and work between the late Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia, and his wife Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Filmed in 2015, the light-hearted conversation between the publisher and the noted author of biographer of World War I […]

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Zoom event to honor Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo

Posted in events, tagged , on Saturday 26 August 2023| Leave a Comment »

A Sept. 22 Zoom event featuring a roundtable of Woolf scholars, colleagues, and friends will be held to celebrate the life and work of Louise DeSalvo. Sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society near what would have been DeSalvo’s 81st birthday on Sept.27, the Sept. 22 event will be the third in a series of […]

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