Orlando has an unrivaled place in the history of English fiction. The last and most light-hearted of Woolf's three major novels, it was begun in 1927, at the peak of her career, and published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1928. Orlando is perhaps the most imaginative, some would say fantastical, creation of this legendarily individualistic writer, taking its reader on a journey across four centuries, with a hero who comes of age as a titled country gentleman in Elizabethan times and ends as a prize-winning woman author in the nineteen-twenties. Diana Michener is a photographer known for images that are powerfully suggestive of narrative. Her photographs offer a new visual experience for readers of Orlando, using friends, relatives, and found portraits of unknowns as models, and costumes, objects, and landscapes to suggest historic periods and the passage of time. The photographer herself appears in several images, in various guises and disguises. The photographs are informed by the story or run parallel, independent but indebted to it for inspiration.