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, Or... more »lando is a woman. The hero/heroine ages little but sees monarchs come and go, hobnobs with the great literary figures of every age, and slips in and out of each new fashion.« less