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ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHYHistorical Context and Facts

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Published on 11 October, 1928 Period covered by the book: 1588-1928

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Fictional biography Facts and the true Irony

“Our simple duty is to state the facts as far as they are known, and so let the reader make of them what he may.” (WOOLF, 1928, p. 36)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Victoria Mary Sackville-West (Vita)

Virginia Woolf

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY Queen Elizabeth (reign: 1558-1603) International expansion Renaissance – Classicism Scotland – Mary, Queen of Scots Elizabeth established Protestant church in Scotland Jealous

“It was Orlando’s fault perhaps; yet, after all, are we to blame Orlando? The age was the Elizabethan; their morals were not ours; nor their poets; nor their climate; nor their vegetables even. Everything was different.” (idem, p.13)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

The East India Company (1601) ships to Indies King James I (reign: 1603-1625) The Great Frost 1608 – The First Frost Fair – Thames

River

“Every day sailed to sea some fine ship bound for the Indies.” (idem, p. 14-15)

Thames Frost Fair - 1683-84

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

King Charles II (1660-1685) Janissaries - Constantinople Gypsies

“Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party — for what do they battle except their own prestige?” (Idem, p. 85)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

King George I (reign: 1714-1727) - Order of Bath (1725)

Greenwich Hospital – 1692

“Greenwich Hospital, erected in memory of Queen Mary by her husband, his late majesty, William the Third.” (Idem, p. 95)

after more than a century England is very different

St. Paul's Cathedral (1710)Sir Christopher Michael Wren (1632-1723)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

King Williams the Third already dead (reign: 1689-1702)

Glorious Revolution (1688-1689) deposition of James II and the accession of William III

The Declaration of Rights and the Bill of Rights (1689) redefined the relationship between monarch and subjects and barred any future Catholic succession to the throne

balance between monarch and Parliament(A civil war (1642 and 1651) had been already fought

because Charles I tried to rule as an absolute monarch)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Great Plague of London 1665

Great Fire of London 1666

Mary, Queen of Scots “Book of Prayer” when she was executed

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Queen Victoria (1837-1901)

Spirit of the age

Women’s role

The Invincible Fleet

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Crinoline

Bishop Berkeley

XVIII to XIX - the cloud

The arrival of the first locomotive

Edward (1901-1910)

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

Telegraph 1830 Tea time 1840s Press - efficiency Thomas Edison – Electric light - 1889 Industrial Revolution 20th century – women driving First airplane - 1903 Consumerism – Mass production Modernization Mechanization Department stores After WWI – women wears pants

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY

ORLANDO – A BIOGRAPHY CURIOSITIES

REAL LIFE ORLANDO

Hogarth Press Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Violet Trefusius Sasha

Rosina Pepita Rosina Pepita

Trip to East Turkey episode

Cross-dressing XVIII’s adventures

The Hawthornden award for “The Land”

The Burdett Coutts award for “The Oak Tree”

Her judicial struggle to take back her family property

Her big judicial action

her marriage with the bissexual comprehensive Harold Nicolson

Marmaduke

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