The Voyage Out

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in the UK in 1915 by Duckworth, and published in the US in 1920 by Doran. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death.