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Mark Byron, Professor, University of Sydney

Virginia Woolf's copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library. What do her newly digitised notes reveal?

Virginia Woolf's own, marked up, copy of her first novel: newly digitised. The University of Sydney/Stefanie Zingsheim, Author provided

One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), annotated with her handwriting and preparations to revise it for a US edition, was recently rediscovered in the Fisher Library Rare Books Collection at the University of Sydney.

Purchased in the late 1970s, it had been misfiled with the science books in the Rare Books collection. Simon Cooper, a metadata services officer, found it in 2021 and immediately understood the value of his discovery.

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