The Voyage Out  by Virginia Woolf was the first novel by this iconic English author, published in Britain in 1915 and in the U.S. in 1920. Written at a point when Woolf was suffering from an acute period of mental illness during which there was a suicide attempt, the novel proceeded painfully slowly.

Nevertheless, it showed all the promise of her later work that would include stream of consciousness writing and themes of sexuality and death.

The final work was over-edited; her publisher felt that her commentary on British politics was too pointed and that it could nip her career in the bud. Read More→