British Modernist Author Virginia Woolf as Today’s Google Doodle on her 136th Birthday
Google is celebrating late British writer Virginia Woolf with a doodle today.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was a prominent English author most known for her modernism. In fact, she was considered one of the most prominent modernists of the twentieth century.
Having attended the Ladies’ Department of King’s College, Woolf began her professional writing career in the 1990s. She was most known for being a pioneer user of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), was published through the Hogarth Press, a publishing house that she established with her husband, Leonard Woolf. She is best known for writing the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), as well as the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” (Source: Wikipedia)
It is safe to say that Virginia Woolf was an internationally known author, with her works being translated to over 50 languages and read all over the world. She suffered from mental illness and committed suicide by drowning in 1941. She was 59.
My favorite Virginia Woolf quote is “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”