Plot Outline for The Voyage Out
(pg numbers refer to American Harcourt ed.
(1948)
CHAPTER I
9 Ambroses on Embankment; board
ship; meet Rachel, Willoughby
CHAPTER II
24 Shipboard: Mr. Pepper: Mrs.
Chailey. leaving flowers in England. Embroidery . Rachel’s education
CHAPTER III
38 Shipboard: Lisbon, Dalloways.
Literary talk
CHAPTER IV
53 Shipboard: Clarissa and Mr. Grice
the Steward. R and C talk; R talks politics with Richard D
CHAPTER V
70 Shipboard: first storm; Richard
kisses R (76); R’s dream
CHAPTER VI
78 Shipboard: Dalloways depart; R and
Helen discuss men. H invites R to stay wi her. Father selfish
CHAPTER VII
87 Arrive at Santa Marina—villa and
garden
CHAPTER VIII
95 SM: three months in villa; R and H
secretly visit hotel, see Hewet
CHAPTER IX
103 Hotel:
Miss Allen, Susan Warrington, Hirst and Hewet. Morning: Mrs. Elliot, Mrs.
Thornbury, Mrs. Paley. Mr. Venning. Ridley Ambrose to hotel
CHAPTER X
123 Rachel’s
private room, Ibsen, Meredith. Invitation to picnic. Expedition to Monte Rosa.
View of forest. Picnic, ants
CHAPTER XI.
136 Susan
and Arthur wander off, proposal. R&T see them embracing. Hirst and Helen
talk. Tea. Fireworks
CHAPTER XII
150 dance
at hotel to celebrate engagement. Hirst putting R down. Hewet sympathetic. Rachel
plays and they invent dances; dance till dawn
CHAPTER XIII
170 Rachel
begins reading Gibbon. Encounter wi tree
(174) , red flowers, yellow butterfly
CHAPTER XIV
177 Mail
from England; moth. Terence spies on Rachel in villa, talks to Ev Murg abt love
(multiple proposals)
CHAPTER XV
195 various visitors,
tea wi Flushings in garden; Hirst and Helen in garden
CHAPTER XVI
210 R
+T go for a walk looking over ocean; discuss lives; first names
CHAPTER
XVII
220 summer; visitors; church; lunch wi Mrs.
Flushing; planning river trip. Hewett jealous
CHAPTER
XVIII
240 Terence thinking about marriage
CHAPTER XIX
245 Rachel
talking to Evelyn Murgatroyd, jealous; believes in everything; kill chickens in
garden; dressing Miss Allen river plan
CHAPTER XX
264 set off
upriver; R+T walk into jungle & declare love
CHAPTER XXI
277 next
day sailing up river; village; wrestling with Helen; discuss marriage with
Helen
CHAPTER XXII
290 R+T seek solitude; thinking abt
returning to London;
CHAPTER
XXIII
304 gossip btw H and St. John; prostitute
thrown out. T bullies R into going to
hotel.
CHAPTER XXIV
313 T falls asleep; Mrs Allen finishes
book; Hughling Elliot ill; Evelyn’s plans; Susan and Arthur
CHAPTER XXV
326 Heat; T reading aloud to R from Comus;
R sick, dream of deformed women; T shares her peace before she dies. Cries out
“Rachel! Rachel!”
CHAPTER XXVI
355 News of R’s death spreads thru hotel;
Mr. Perrott proposes to Evelyn again in the garden
CHAPTER
XXVII
368 Storm arrives; trapped moth. Storm ends—Hirst half-asleep.
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