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Rachel's ideas take flight with striking visual images and loose emotional associations. Her emotions become increasingly intense and her behavior more erratic as she falls in love with a fellow passenger. But she has no meaningful starting point or signposts to guide her in self exploration. As she accompanies other brave souls on a short guided trip into the wilds of the jungle, Rachel's insight races. While staying at a hotel in South America, the pace of Rachel's development accelerates. While on her father's ship, Rachel's liberation is as slow and determined as her piano playing, staying with the composition but engaging in a few private improvisations. She begins to loosen her self restrictions as she studies the artificial and real motives of her fellow travelers.

Rachel has an opportunity to take a voyage out of her bonds on a cruise to South America. Her outer life is restricted by her maiden aunts, and her inner life is kept in check by self-discipline in her piano playing and the restraint imposed on her imagination in the kind of literature she is allowed to read. 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 Bloomsbury Group.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Vinrace is a character whose life in England is structured by Victorian ideas of the proper development of young women. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. 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.

LibriVox recording of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.