'I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.'-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)The Voyage Out (1915), Virginia Woolf’s first novel, is about Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, who travel by sea from London to a South American resort. It describes Rachel’s journey of self-discovery from her sheltered life in London to freedom and discovery, which reflects Woolf’s own journey from a repressed childhood to intellectual inspiration.