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(Hogarth Press, 1972, p. 83).
    12. Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway
(1925; Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 34–5).
    13. Edward Carpenter,
Love’s Coming of Age
(1896; Mitchell Kennerley, 1911, pp. 120–21).
    14. George Bernard Shaw, ‘Woman-Man in Petticoats’ in
Platform and Pulpit,
ed. Dan H. Laurence (Hill and Wang, 1961, p. 174).
    15. Havelock Ellis,
The Psychology of Sex
(Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1933, p. 225).
    16. Adrienne Rich, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Continuum’ in
Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985
(W. W. Norton, 1986, pp. 23–75); Radclyffe Hall,
The Well of Loneliness
(1928; Avon, 1981, p. 52).
    17.
Diary,
III, 31 Aug. 1928, p. 193.
    18. Bell,
Virginia Woolf,
II, p. 132.
    19. Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey
(1818; Penguin Books, 1972, p. 123).
    20. Arthur Schlesinger, ‘The Role of Women in American History’ in
New Viewpoints in American History
(Macmillan, 1921, p. 126).
    21. Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own
(1928; Penguin Books, 1945, PP. 45, 47).
    22. Virginia Woolf,
The Pargiters,
ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (Hogarth Press, 1978, p. 9).
    23. Leon Edel,
Literary Biography
(1959; Indiana University Press, 1973, p. 139).
    24. ibid., p. 138.
    25. On Ariosto’s
Orlando Furioso
as a major precursor text for
Orlando,
see Beverley Ann Schlack,
Continuing Presences: Virginia Woolf’s Use of Literary Allusion
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979, pp. 80–83). For a discussion of the comparable relevance of the Orlando/Rosalind plot in Shakespeare’s
As You Like It,
see Joanne Trautmann,
The Jessamy Brides: The Friendship of Virginia Woolf and V. Sackville-West (Pennsylvania State University Studies,
No. 36, 1973, P. 41).
    26. See ‘Orlando: An Edition of the Manuscript’, ed. Madeline Moore, in
Twentieth Century Literature
(No. 25, 1979, pp. 337–9).
    27. Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own
(1928; Penguin Books, 1945, p. 112).
    28. For a more detailed discussion of parallels between Vita’s life and Orlando’s, see Schlack, op. cit., and Trautmann, op. cit.
    29. Nigel Nicolson,
Portrait of a Marriage
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973, p. 107).
    30. For Vita’s own history of Knole and its extravagances, see Vita Sackville-West,
Knole and the Sackvilles
(Heinemann, 1922); see also the notes to this edition.
    31. For an interesting (though somewhat different) analysis of
Orlando
as a ‘deconstruction’ of conventional biography and history, see Rachel Bowlby,
Virginia Woolf
(Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp. 128–45).
    32. Virginia Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway
(1925; Penguin Books, 1992, p. 140).
    33.
Diary,
III, 22 March 1928, p. 177; 21 April 1928, p. 180.
    34. ibid., 31 May 1928, p. 185.
    35. ibid., 27 Oct. 1928, p. 200.
    36. Rebecca West,
New York Herald Tribune,
21 Oct. 1928, 11, pp. 1, 6.
    37.
Diary,
III, 22 Sept. 1928, p. 198.
    38. ibid., 18 Dec. 1928, p. 212.
    39. Bell,
Virginia Woolf,
II, pp. 139–40, 118–19.
    40. Zwerdling, op. cit., p. 56; Jane Marcus, ‘Introduction: Virginia Woolf Aslant’ in
Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant
(University of Nebraska Press, 1983, p. 2); John Batchelor,
Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels
(CUP, 1991, pp. 16, 18).
    41.
Diary,
III, 5 Nov. 1929, p. 264.
    42. ibid., 7 Nov. 1928, p. 203.
    43. ibid., 14 May 1925, pp. 18–19.
    44.
Moments of Being,
p. 90.
    45. Elizabeth Abel,
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis
(University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 45).
    46.
Moments of Being,
p. 90.
    47.
Shorter Fiction,
p. 48.
    48. Zwerdling, op. cit., p. 327.
Further Reading
PRIMARY
Vita Sackville-West
    The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf,
ed. Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska (Hutchinson, 1984).
    Knole and the Sackvilles
(Heinemann, 1922).
Virginia Woolf
    The Diary of Virginia Woolf,
5 vols., ed. Anne Olivier Bell (Hogarth Press, 1977; Penguin Books, 1979).
    The Essays of Virginia Woolf,
6 vols., ed. Andrew McNeillie (Hogarth Press, 1986).
    The Letters of Virginia Woolf,
6 vols., ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne