Virginia Woolf Orlando

About Orlando

Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) is her most playful and most subversive novel — the story of a young Elizabethan nobleman who lives through four centuries, wakes as a woman at thirty, and arrives at 1928 as Woolf's contemporary. Written as a love letter to Vita Sackville-West, whose own aristocratic history provided the novel's real houses and portraits, Orlando is also Woolf's meditation on gender, time, biography, and literary history — one of the foundational texts of feminist literary theory.