Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
Key Facts:-
Full Title Orlando: a Biography
Author Virginia Woolf
Type Of Work Novel
Genre Fictional biography
Language Englis
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 Hogarth Press
Narrator Third-person, omniscient narrator; an unreliable "biographer" who changes style and tone to suit the changes of Orlando's life
Climax The climax occurs when Orlando finds herself in the present day, 1928, and she is forced to acknowledge her own nature as a multitude of selves and experiences within one person.
Protagonist Orlando
Setting (Time) 1588 to 1928
Setting (Place) Mostly in England (London and Kent), but 1660–1685 are spent on an excursion to Constantinople and the hills of Turkey.
Orlando
Sasha
Shel
Archduchess Henrietta / Archduke Harry
Sir Nicholas Greene
Mr. Pope
Rustum
Queen Elizabeth I
Rosina Pepita
Clorinda
Favilla
Euphrosyne
Themes:-
Fact and Imagination
Gender differences
Conforming to society
Symbols
Clouds over London
Orlando's manor house
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