Virginia Woolf 
The voyage out 

’The Voyage Out was published in 1915. It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis. (…) It is absolutely unafraid… Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path.’ EM Forster