The most popular works of Virginia Woolf:
  • The Voyage Out (1915)
  • Night and Day (1919)
  • Jacob's Room (1922)
  •  Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
  • To the Lighthouse (1927)
  •  Orlando: A Biography (1928)
  • The Waves (1931)
  •  Flush: A Biography (1933)
  • The Years (1937)
  •  Between the Acts (1941)
  •  A Writer's Diary (1953)

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The Voyage Out The Voyage Out  is the first novel by  Virginia Woolf , published in 1915 by  Duckworth ; and published in the US in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise  Edwardian  life. The novel introduces  Clarissa Dalloway , the central character of Woolf's later novel,  Mrs Dalloway . Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of  Lytton Strachey  and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister,  Vanessa Bell . Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse and discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the...
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Virginia Woolf  was an English author, feminist, essayist, publisher, and critic, considered as one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century along with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Her parents were Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), who was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer, and Julia Prinsep Duckworth (1846–1895), a renowned beauty. According to Woolf's memoirs, her most vivid childhood memories were not of London but of St. Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895. This place inspired her to write one of her masterpieces, To the Lighthouse. The sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was 13, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns. but it was the death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalised. Some scholars have suggested that her mental instability was also due t...
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