title: Orlando: A Biography (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)
author:  Virginia Woolf 
description: Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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  ORLANDO AS A BOY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Orlando_
  
  
  
  
  
  Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great
  novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a
  modernist Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie
  Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother,
  in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to
  breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years
  later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With her sister,
  the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and
  artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury
  Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and
  together they founded the Hogarth Press i