Suzanne Raitt is Chancellor Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. She has published extensively on Virginia Woolf, including Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993), and Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' (1990). She edited Woolf's Jacob's Room in 2007, and Woolf's Night and Day in 1992. Her other books include May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian (2000). She won a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence at the College of William and Mary, Virginia in 2008, and an NEH Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in 1998–9. Ian Blyth is a lecturer in Literature and Philosophy at Inverness College UHI, University of the Highlands and Islands / Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean. He is a member of the Editorial Board for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, and was the researcher for the Cambridge edition of Woolf's The Waves, co-edited Woolf's The Years, and has published a number of articles on Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

• List of illustrations; General editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work; List of abbreviations; List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Orlando; List of editorial symbols; Introduction; Chronology of the composition of Orlando; Sackville biographical table; Sackville family tree; Orlando; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Bibliography.

'… the pleasure of this edition is in tracing the origin and progress of Orlando through Woolf's diaries and correspondence.' The Times Literary Supplement