A rare UK first edition featuring the author's inscriptions has been digitised and placed online.
The book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years.Another UK first edition used personally by Woolf is owned by a private collector based in London.
She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device and is a lasting literary influence to this day. She fell back into depression and was put in a nursing home the day before it was published in 1915, staying there for six months. Her husband Leonard Woolf said she was "writing every day with a kind of tortured intensity" to finish the novel.
He said: "I knew the book didn't belong there, so I took it out and then saw the author's name handwritten on the first page.University of SydneyThe Voyage Out was incorrectly shelved and eventually found in the science section of Rare Books and Special Collections One of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers, Maggs Bros in London, told the BBC the rediscovered Woolf copy could be worth about £250,000 given the other first edition copy sold for just over £91,000 in 2001.
"It carries iconic value," said to Mark Byron - a professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sydney, who has studied the book in person."Its role in Woolf's editorial decisions towards the first American edition of the novel in 1920 is an important element of its textual history."
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