The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II
, but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a...
Literary Setting
Virginia Woolf
The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by...
