This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1928) text of Orlando: A Biography, with an introduction and explanatory annotations by Madelyn Detloff, accompanied by illustrations from earlier editions. Provocative reviews from Woolf's contemporaries and various written materials that place Orlando within a changing epoch. Seven critical essays on the novel's major themes: gender, sexuality, class, feminism, and performance. A chronology of Woolf's life and a selected bibliography.