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A summary of Themes in Virginia Woolf's Orlando. ... SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription.
Virginia Woolf ’s 1928 novel Orlando is a romping, time-travelling feminist escapade. The protagonist, Orlando, begins life as a handsome, young, male, seventeenth-century aristocrat who changes gender and moves towards 1928 ~~ pivotal as the year which saw the granting of universal voting to women.
One of Virginia Woolf ’s most remarkable works, Orlando, is written as a historical biography paying homage to the family of Woolf ’s friend, Vita Sackville-West.. Narrating the adventures of a poet who goes from being a man to a woman, and mostly read as a feminist work today, Orlando explores the boundaries of gender and sexuality and takes the readers into the journey of love and acceptance through
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A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson. Woolf’s most lighthearted novel is a playful and exuberant romp through history. As a teenage nobleman, Orlando spends his ...
Full Title Orlando: a Biography . Author Virginia Woolf. Type of Work Novel. Genre Fictional biography. Language English. Time and place written Woolf wrote Orlando from her home in London, 1927–1928, between To the Lighthouse and The Waves. Date of first publication October 11, 1928, the date given in the last line of the novel. Publisher ...
Oct 27, 2000 · Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life.
Virginia Woolf and Michael H. Whitworth Abstract Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word.
