Virginia Wolfes Lesbian Affair

I have to admit that I signed up for the class because I knew Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a queer woman. As someone who wrote openly about her relationships with women and men, Virginia Woolf has been retrospectively labeled as a bisexual author of the early 20th century. Her body of work exemplifies a mind of rare and specific quality. Woolf solved biographical, historical, and personal dilemmas with the story of Orlando , who lives from Elizabethan times through the entire 18th century; he then becomes female, experiences debilitating gender constraints, and lives into the 20th century. For the fictional historical narrative, she relied upon experiences of friends and family from the Victorian Age to the s.