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photo of Virginia Woolf, c1940. (c) Man
Ray Trust/ ADAGP (Paris)/ SODRAC (Montreal) 2000. See note at bottom of
page

Section 4.2 Virginia Woolf's New Biography

There is a large body of material on the World Wide Web about Virginia Woolf and Orlando.

You can begin searching through some of the home pages maintained about the author and her writing:

  • A number of Woolf's writings have been digitized. See Virginia Woolf e-texts if you want to read more by Woolf.

You might learn more about Virginia Woolf, her writing, as well as ways of analysing her, by examining some scholarly articles by and about her:

  • Read an essay by Joel Rich about Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own that also discusses Orlando.
  • Read a close reading/annotation of part of Orlando on the idea of gender bending.
  • Read a close reading/annotation of Orlando on the idea of biography.

Choose an internet search engine and see what else you discover about Orlando and Virginia Woolf.

Image of Virginia Woolf, as seen in 'The Death of The Moth and other essays' by Virginia Woolf. Published by Readers Union/ The Hogarth Press, London: 1943.

(c) Man Ray Trust/ ADAGP (Paris)/ SODRAC (Montreal) 2000.