Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.(Book review)

Biography, September, 2008 by Booth, Alison

Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press, June 2006. . August 20, 2008. (1)

Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is aptly named. Virginia Woolf's parodic biography, Orlando, about an English writer who lives from the Renaissance to the 1920s and changes sex from a man to a woman--and more broadly, Woolf's search for the literary history of women in A Room of Ones Own--are fitting endorsements of this "electronic textbase." The Orlando Project similarly reaches beyond the limits of time and gender: from the fifth century BC (or BCE) to the present day, it includes male writers and "other women"...

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