Thousands of works, including Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, published in 1928, entered the
Other Woolf works in the public domain include To the Lighthouse (1927), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Jacob’s Room (1922), Night and Day (1919), and The Voyage Out (1915).
In the U.S., any work published before 1923 is in the public domain. Works published between 1923 and 1977 generally receive copyright protection for 95 years from the date of their publication. In 2012, writers who died before 1942 entered the pubic domain.
