![]() ![]() ![]() According to DeSalvo, Woolf was "warned by colleagues that publishing such an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling career". DeSalvo's Melymbrosia attempts to restore the text of the novel as Woolf had originally conceived it, which contained more candid political commentary on such issues as homosexuality, women's suffrage, and colonialism. She reviewed more than 1,000 manuscript pages from Woolf's private papers, dating the earlier versions of the work by small organizational clues such as the color of ink used or noticing where a pen had last left off writing. Professor DeSalvo worked for seven years on the project of reconstructing the text of the novel as it might have appeared in 1912, before Woolf had begun serious revisions. In 1981, Louise DeSalvo published an alternate version of The Voyage Out featuring its original title, Melymbrosia. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. ![]() The novel had a long and difficult gestation it was not published until 1915, as it was written during a period in which Woolf was especially psychologically vulnerable. Woolf began work on The Voyage Out by 1910 (perhaps as early as 1907) and had finished an early draft by 1912. The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth. ![]()
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