Orlando - A Biography is a novel by
Virginia Woolf , first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist
Vita Sackville-West , Woolf’s lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a
feminist classic , the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women’s writing and gender and transgender studies.
Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.