Orlando: A Biography

Hardback

Main Details

Title Orlando: A Biography
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Virginia Woolf
Edited by Suzanne Raitt
Edited by Ian Blyth
SeriesThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:674
Dimensions(mm): Height 223,Width 145
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780521878968
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 7 June 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Suzanne Raitt is Chancellor Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. She has published extensively on Virginia Woolf, including Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993), and Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' (1990). She edited Woolf's Jacob's Room in 2007, and Woolf's Night and Day in 1992. Her other books include May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian (2000). She won a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence at the College of William and Mary, Virginia in 2008, and an NEH Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in 1998-9. Ian Blyth is a lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at Inverness College UHI, University of the Highlands and Islands / Oilthigh na Gaidhealtachd agus nan Eilean. He is a member of the Editorial Board for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, and was the researcher for the Cambridge edition of Woolf's The Waves, co-edited Woolf's The Years, and has published a number of articles on Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

Reviews

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