Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the ultimate shapeshifter, is now a madcap graphic novel

“Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been.”

“Orlando was a man until the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since.”

With their unabashed acceptance of gender fluidity, these declarations ring with the politics of our present moment. They would be at home in a contemporary trans memoir or Instagram caption. Over on X, they would send a certain children’s author and her followers into a predictable frenzy.

Remarkably, however, these sentences were penned…

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