“The Voyage Out: Some Press Opinions”

“The Voyage Out: Some Press Opinions”

ca. 1919

Critics recognized Woolf’s literary goals early on. Reviewers commented on her “perpetual effort to say the real thing and not the expected thing” and on her commitment to presenting characters, not as inventions, but as “real men and women, complex and various.” E.M.Forster, a close friend whose opinion Woolf valued dearly, remarked on her boldness, noting that The Voyage Out “is absolutely unafraid.”

Although well received by the press, the book sold slowly. This small broadside was published to entice more readers to the book.