People to go with the furniture
Orlando goes on a massive interior design spree, lavishing huge expense on new furniture and other luxuries for the 365...
Cooling the ardour of the Archduke
A wonderful, quirky episode in Orlando: a bizarre game played for hours, days, weeks, by Orlando and the Archduke whose...
Upright and unflinching
A touching and imaginative fictional description of the complexity of Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Orlando is a young boy of...
Disseverment
The noun of 'dissever', to divide or sever something from something else. Also 'disseverance'.  Used here in reference to a...
Inkhorn in one hand, pen in the other
Orlando enjoys a portfolio career, as a courtier, a diplomat, a landowner, a lady under house arrest, but throughout, he-she...
A voice answering a voice?
More than just the writing of poetry, isn't writing in general often 'a voice answering a voice'?
This touching quotation...
The vegetables of another age
Something wonderfully down to earth about this quick survey of differences between us and the Elizabethans, particularly in that last...
Of violet eyes
Only the second example I have come across of violet eyes, never yet seen in real life. Here the 76th...
No plebeians here
How noble can you get? Most aristos trace back to some humble origin until they got a knighthood or some...
Of life, lovers, spaniels and sympathy
Orlando's four hundred year span seems to boil down to the search for Life, Love and Authorship. Here she is...
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