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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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