ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I move to Woolf’s feminist dialogue with History and historiography in Orlando and A Room of One’s Own, in a cultural context when innovation – the “new” – became an injunction for both modernist historians and modernist literature. As Woolf more clearly engaged with a creative poetic and political practice, she continued to fracture past and present historiographical discourses along with their hegemonic pretensions. Keeping the tracks of Victorian and modernist historiographical models that she pitted against one another, she resemioticised some of the historian’s chief tools and concepts – among them biography, time and change – thanks to an empowering palimpsestic practice.
