The Voyage Out

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the US in 1920 by Doran. These themes - homosexuality, women's suffrage and attitudes to colonialism are still within the book. Rachel 'Voyages Out' on her father's ship, in the company of older, more worldly people. Helen and Ridley Ambrose, related through marriage to Rachel's father, are free-thinking artistic people. DeSalvo's edition was reissued by Cleis Press in 2002.