The most brilliant portrayal of a transsexual experience in modern history. Even when Magnus Hirshfield was publishing his treatise on the transsexual phenomena, Woolf relates an account of the intracies of gender identity undiscovered by social scientists and biologists. Published in 1928, Orlando has been billed as one of Woolf’s best imaginative works however, such criticism was never seen in the light of reality but a surreal depiction of the writer’s portrayal of a young man who wakes up one day as a woman