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Full title - Orlando: A Biography.
Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen, was until the early 1890s principal editor of the Dictíonary of National Biography, the great commemorative work of the Victorian period. Note her diary entry (1928, shortly after publication of Orlando):
Father's birthday. He would have been 1928-1832 / 96 96, yes, today & could have been 96, like other people one has known; but mercifully was not. His life would have entirely ended mine. What would have happened? No writing, no books; - inconceivable.

Feels father's influence would have stifled her creativity; not alone –
Gilbert and Gubar, in their monumental and influential work, The Madwoman in the Attic, write about the ‘anxiety of influence' – ie problem that all women writers have of establishing their independence of the male literary tradition (return to this subject later). But Woolf's is deliberate and personal reaction against her immediate male predecessor: because her book apparently......

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