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This whole Muscovite princess business annoys me too. The Muscovites practused the seclusion of their elite women in the terem and they weren't allowed out until the time of Tsar Peter I in the 18th century

Given the Ottoman connection in the story wouldn't a Bulgarian or Circassian princess been more congruent? Grghhhh.

It was very high, so high indeed that nineteen English counties could be seen beneath; and on clear days thirty or perhaps forty, if the weather was very fine.

- I suppose this is whimsy or comic hyperbole or something, i find it annoying; unfortunately for me this the narrative voice.

"Orlando was unaccountable disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, got as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, & behold, literature was an elderly gentleman talking about duchesses."

"This method of writing biography, though it has its merits, is a little base, perhaps, & the reader, if we go on with it, may complain that he could recite the calendar for himself & so save his pocket whatever sum the Hogarth press may think proper to charge for this book."

"No sooner had the words left her mouth than an awful suspicion rushed into their minds simultaneously,
'You're a woman shel!' She cried.
'You're a man, orlando!' He cried. "