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:

• Virginia Woolf links to a few other internet resources
• 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 Virginia Woolf on modernism in whichWoolf argues that English modernism is indebted to Russian writers like Chekhov.
• 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.

• Follow the links to Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography to see pictures of Virginia Woolf.

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