This is the story of a young Englishwoman, Rachel Vinrace, and her long sea voyage to South America, her engagement to Terence Hewet and her sudden illness and death.
Published in 1915, 'The Voyage Out' was Virginia Woolf's first novel, and came out after she had suffered a succession of severe mental crises. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text and a list of textual variants that appeared during her lifetime.