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''Orlando: A Biography'' is a fictional biography by Virginia Woolf. The novel follows Orlando, who starts out as a young nobleman during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and follows his love affair with a Russian princess, his ambassadorship in the East, and his [[Gender Bender|spontaneous sex-change]] and life afterward as a woman. Despite living from the 16th through the 20th centuries, Orlando is 36 when the novel ends in the present day (well, October 11, 1928, but that was the present when it was written). The various themes of the novel, including gender, literature and poetry, and the passage of time, are explored by Orlando's experiences with these subjects. Being mainly known for being a story of gender-bending, ''Orlando'' covers many [[Gender Blending Tropes]]. The novel was supposedly written by Woolf as a love letter to her lesbian lover Vita Sackville-West. ''Orlando'' was made into a movie starring [[Tilda Swinton]] in 1992, and adapted into a play by Sarah Ruhl in 2010.

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