A new edition of Woolf’s fictional biography of a cross-dressing hero/ine whose experiments with genre and concerns with sexuality have ensured its popularity in the twenty-first century.The Introduction draws on the latest scholarship and considers questions concerning fame and posterity, the contemporary publishing context, the nature of biography, history and historicization.The notes provide essential contextual background and identify the literary allusions and self-reference. Up-to-date bibliography and full chronology. Biographical preface by Frank Kermode.New to this Edition:Introduction by Michael Whitworth.Revised and updated Select Bibliography.New and expanded Notes.Re-set text, and original illustrations placed closer to their original position in the text.