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Orlando and Their Histories
This lecture will explore the relation between ‘History’ as usually understood now and the common eighteenth-century use of the word to mean a novel. From the beginning ‘story’ was recognised as central both to historiography and fiction, something of which Woolf was well aware and with which she plays throughout Orlando.
The times in which we live shape us as much as family, place, class, or nationality, and Woolf deploys her keen historical sense to chart the shifting meanings of sex and gender over five centuries, and their relation to literature.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 8 May 2027
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 Students on a low income
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
Image: Holly James Johnstone as Orlando
Orlando and Their Histories
This lecture will explore the relation between ‘History’ as usually understood now and the common eighteenth-century use of the word to mean a novel. From the beginning ‘story’ was recognised as central both to historiography and fiction, something of which Woolf was well aware and with which she plays throughout Orlando.
The times in which we live shape us as much as family, place, class, or nationality, and Woolf deploys her keen historical sense to chart the shifting meanings of sex and gender over five centuries, and their relation to literature.
Live online lecture and seminar with Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 8 May 2027
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 Students on a low income
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
Image: Holly James Johnstone as Orlando