![]() ![]() Rachel is intelligent, highly musical, but knows little about life. Here is of course a theme that Virginia was passionate about – the education of women. Her upbringing has been educationally lacking, in that no-one directed or disciplined her learning. Rachel’s mother died when she was young, and she has been brought up by her aunts. The outward narrative drive follows Rachel Vinrace, the 24 year old daughter of a business man and ship owner. These themes – homosexuality, women’s suffrage and attitudes to colonialism are still within the book. By all accounts, some of the themes which had been more fully explored in the first submitted version, had been scaled back, in order to achieve publications. She had spent two years, from 1910-1912 writing it, and then heavily revised it. It was a sure delight to read Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, published in 1915, when she was 33. ![]()
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