Orlando Author:Virginia Woolf In this spirited and thoroughly original fantasy?a mock biography complete with photographs and detailed index?Virginia Woolf created a character liberated from the restraints of time and gender. Born a young nobleman in the sixteenth century, Orlando is a favorite at the court of Queen Elizabeth. Three centuries later, as the novel ends, Orland... more »o is a woman. The hero/heroine ages little but sees monarchs come and go, hobnobs with great literary figures of every age, and slips in and out of each new fashion.« less