I forecast, then that I shall get no criticism, except of the evasive,
jocular kind...that the press will be kind & talk of its charm, &
sprightliness; also I shall be attacked for a feminist & hinted at for
a sapphist...I shall get a good many letters from young women. I am
afraid it will not be taken seriously. ...It is a trifle, I shall say;
so it is, but I wrote it with ardour and conviction...You feel the
creature arching its back & galloping on, though as usual much is
watery & flimsy & pitched in too high a voice.
-- Virginia Woolf, predicting the response to A Room of One's Own