Orlando--My Outline
Annotated Hacourt edition
Chapter One [Elizabethan Frost]
11 Starts out wi Orlando in attic
15 Then he goes outside and lies under the oak all day
17 Has to run back and get dressed quickly to meet the Queen
19 Catches the eye of the queen and goes to court; becomes her favorite
21 Fools around with various women at court and also common women
25 Engaged to Euphrosyne
26 The Great Frost; King James holds court on the ice at Greenwich
28 Falls in love with Sasha;
36 they skate away to Russian ship; he finds her unfaithful
37 Return to London;
42 sees Othello being performed
45 Plans to elope; Sasha never shows.
46 Frost begins to break; river thaws.
48 Russian ship gone.
Cha Chapter Two [Orlando’s withdrawal]
49 biographer duty; exiled from court—goes back to home
50 falls into trance
53 strange delight in death
54 reading Sir Thomas Browne
57 O a secret writer
58 memory stitches associations together
62 invites Nick Greene
68 Nick Greene tires of the country
71 O now sees literature and fame a farce; burns all 57 works
72 TimePasses (O turns 30)
76 choses obscurity over fame
79 becomes obsessed wi buying furniture for house
83 Lady Harriet shows up
87 O leaves to become ambassador to Constantinople
Chapter Three [Constantinople and Gypsies]
88 Lack of proper documentation for O’s diplomatic years
89 love of country
91 ritual ceremonies
92 O’s charisma
93 DUKEDOM and grand party with fireworks
97 riot
98 rumor of woman coming to his rooms TRANCE; deed of marriage to Rosina Pepita
99 seventh day of trance: three sisters: Purity
100 Chastity, Modesty
102 transformation… He was a woman
104 goes to the gipsies
106 English disease—love of nature
107 starts to write again
109 gipsies see ancestral accumulation of land as shameful
111 vision of park at home
Chapter Four [Return to England; new sex. 18th Century]
114 problems with female clothing
117 vascillation btw sexes; goes ashore in Italy wi Cpt
119 priase God I am a woman, but still loves women
121 cliffs of England; adieu to ladies of Spain
122 St. Paul’s—great dome: London streets
124 law suits
125 back to country house
130 mind now able to hold an argument; begins writing “Oak Tree” again
132 Archduchess Harriet becomes Archduke Harry
134 courtship=watching flies set on sugar
135 cheats; drops toad down his back—laughs at him
137 goes to London in search of life and a lover; dressed as a man
138 clothes transform us – she becomes a woman
142 age of Queen Anne—emptiness of society
146 salons—emptiness of talk (party consciousness)
148 meets Pope
153 substitute words for account of man
156 18th C misogyny
158 dresses as a man; goes to Leister Sq.
160 Nell and other prostitutes
164 storm clouds of the 19thC begin to gather
Chapter Five [19th Century]
167 changes to climate of England: damp. Chill
168 extreme fertility of 19thC
173 re-reads MS—thinks how little she and house have changed; but blots her work
175 cannot write; sudden urge for marriage
177 people all stuck together in pairs
178 O does not fit Spirit of the Age
180 need to lean upon someone
182 goes out in nature—lies in the grass
183 Marmaduke Bontrhop Shelmerdine appears on a horse
184 rook’s wing, silver pools; both are both sexes
187 results of law suits…
189 O goes off in woods for solitude; Bonthrop: snail shells (B=solitary)
191 Shelley—west wind
Chapter Six [Modern Times]
194 goes inside
195 returns to writing (quote from Vita) spring
196 can now write because in tune wi spirit of age
197 long period of thinking leaves biographer little to write abt
200 finishes poem; take it to London b/c it wants to be read
202 experience of crowded monotony of London
203 runs into Nick Greene
205 NG now thinks eliz Age great; we are in degenerate times
208 bookstore and critics
211 toy boat on Serpinteine reminds her of Shel: ecstacy!
215 Kew will do
216 Hail Happiness, nature ( she is pregnant) (kingfisher)
217 Edwardian Age: 20thC –change in weather
219 present moment
222 shopping, whiff of Sasha
223 many different times in every human system
225 drive to country—unification of self
229 haunted by Sksp.. wild goose
232 exploring house (no longer hers—tourists)
237 through garden, into park: Oak tree
238 crooning song of wood, fritillaries
240 calls for husband—he arrives in aeroplane
241 the wild goose
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