A review by skconaghan
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

‘The chief charges against her were, one: that she was dead, two: that she was a woman, which amounts to much the same thing,..’

…and so we have the plight of a woman in a man’s world, a woman who experiences and possesses much the same intellect, eloquence, and capability as a man—yet is bound by social expectations that define beauty and is restrained by the cultural rules of etiquette from using any of her so-called masculine attributes (as above: intellect, eloquence, capability…)

The autobiography of an intellectual—and straightjacketed—woman 100 years ago.

Thank God for progress, the wins of feminism in the twentieth century, and the continued battle for equality. We owe much to the words and fearlessness of women like Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft and HRH Elizabeth I…