Orlando
A Biography

This definitive edition offers hundreds of pages of critical apparatus, including a history of composition, explanatory notes and textual variants.

Virginia Woolf (Author), Suzanne Raitt (Edited by), Ian Blyth (Edited by)

9780521878968, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 June 2018

674 pages, 10 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.5 x 3.8 cm, 1.74 kg

'… the pleasure of this edition is in tracing the origin and progress of Orlando through Woolf's diaries and correspondence.' The Times Literary Supplement

Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction charts the birth of the novel in the romance between Woolf and Sackville-West, and the role it played in the evolution and eventual fading of that romance. Extensive explanatory notes reveal the extent to which the novel is embedded in Woolf's knowledge of Sackville-West, her family history and her writings. Thorough annotation of every literary and historical allusion in the text establishes its significance as a parodic literary and social history of England, as well as a spoof of one of Woolf's favorite forms, the biography. It also includes all variants from the extant proofs, as well as editions of the novel produced during Woolf's lifetime.

List of illustrations
General editors' preface
Notes on the edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work
List of abbreviations
List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Orlando
List of editorial symbols
Introduction
Chronology of the composition of Orlando
Sackville biographical table
Sackville family tree
Orlando
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual notes
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]