Virginia Woolf completed her first novel, Melymbrosia, in 1912. The story concerned the emotional and sexual awakening of a young Englishwoman traveling abroad and bristled with social commentary on homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism. Woolf was warned, however, that publishing an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling career as a novelist. The revised, quieter book was published under the title The Voyage Out. Virginia Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo spent seven years ...
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Virginia Woolf completed her first novel, Melymbrosia, in 1912. The story concerned the emotional and sexual awakening of a young Englishwoman traveling abroad and bristled with social commentary on homosexuality, the suffrage movement, and colonialism. Woolf was warned, however, that publishing an outspoken indictment of Britain could prove disastrous to her fledgling career as a novelist. The revised, quieter book was published under the title The Voyage Out. Virginia Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo spent seven years uncovering the original novel from Woolf's papers in the archives of the New York Public Library.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 1573441481.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Melymbrosia is as covertly and as fiercely seditious as many of Jane Austen's novels. No matter how accomplished and risk-taking this first novel was, Woolf continually expressed fears about publishing it, about having it seen, exposed, and criticized. To her sister Vanessa Bell, she wrote that she hid her manuscript whenever anyone entered a room and she wondered if she would ever dare print it."-Louise DeSalvo.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 350 p. Audience: General/trade. A near fine copy in a near fine, mylar protected DJ, stated 1st edition; slight wear to DJ and DJ edges, no names or internal markings, 8vo., 350 pages.,
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Fine in fine dust jacket. As new volume in as new dust wrapper. (ID: 10K251) Edited with an introduction by Louise DeSalvo. First Edition, First Printing
