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The timing for Orlando to be 'trans fiction' couldn't be better. Orlando: A Biography Summary | Book Reports The fanciful biographical novel pays homage to the family of Woolf's friend Vita Sackville-West from the time of her ancestor Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) to the family's country estate at Knole. Orlando Chapter Summaries | Course Hero The biographer is now faced with a difficulty which it is better perhaps to confess than to gloss over. The story of a man who - a third of the way through the book - awakes in the body of a woman? Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most enduringly popular and entertaining works. Preregister now for Biblio.live and get $10 to use at the fair. He retreats to his home in the country, whe. Orlando: A Biography | by Virginia Woolf | Diana Michener The novel was inspired by Woolf . The red of the cheeks was covered with peach down; the down on the lips was only a little thicker than the down on the cheeks. Orlando: A Biography 1/2 - Virginia Woolf [Audiobook ENG] Download PDF. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. "He—for there can be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it," the biographer writes, is eager to ride, like his father and grandfather, "in the barbarian fields of Africa." Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. While Orlando's lifespan emphasises the fantastic aspect of the novel, it also means "Orlando arrives as an adult on the scene of each new era, she escapes normal childhood socialization" (Judy Little). Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Orlando is a fictional biography of a person called Orlando who lives over three hundred years from Queen Elizabeth's reign in the sixteenth century through to King Edwards reign in 1928, the year Virginia Woolf wrote the novel.