The Voyage Out (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: c. 1906
- Setting: London, the mid-Atlantic, and South America
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Voyages, Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, Marriage, Faith, London, Ships, South America or South Americans, Intellect, Piano music
- Locales: London, England, Oceans, South America
Characters Discussed
Rachel Vinrace, the twenty-four-year-old protagonist, an intelligent and sensitive but only informally educated young woman. She plays the piano beautifully and has considerable musical talent but is socially innocent and naïve, with a weak face and a hesitant character. As an only child, she has led a sheltered life, having been reared primarily by her two unmarried aunts, her mother being dead and her father, Willoughby, a shipping magnate, being a very busy man of affairs. She has been kept ignorant of the relations between men and women. When...
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