Virginia Woolf's Queer Masterpiece 

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Brrrrrr! It's cold outside! So cold the River Thames is frozen over. People are skating from bank to bank and horse drawn carriages are wheeling over the river’s icy depths. But while the cold is vicious, the heat of romance burns brightly for gender fluid time-traveler, Orlando.
This is the story of the River Thames Frost Fairs of days gone by, but it's also a celebration of Virginia Woolf's startling, challenging, and beautiful prose. Want to find out how Woolf used the enchanting Frost Fair setting to bring out Orlando’s queerness, moving the protagonist of her esteemed 1928 novel into a space beyond gender? You're in the right place.
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Reading the Past, 'Frost Fairs: Fun on the Frozen Thames', • Frost Fairs: Fun on th...
Selli, Fabrizio, 'All the fun of the Frost Fair: why, when and how did Londoners party on the ice?', www.museumoflondon.org.uk/dis...
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Woolf, Virgina, Orlando: A Biography, ed. Rachel Bowlby (Oxford: OUP, 1992)