Scarce with the wrapper

Harrison, Jane Ellen ~ Reminiscences of a Student’s Life – With Six illustrations

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London : 1925

The First UK printing published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London in 1925. The BOOK is in exceptional near fine condition. Original red cloth, marbled in black, printed paper label on spine, top-stain red, with the scarce wrapper. The wrapper is in Very Good+ condition. It has a few chips and some short tears to the edges and folds. Lightly rubbed, the spine darkened and toned with small losses to the spine ends but not affecting any titling. Some small tape repairs to the verso. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The autobiography of linguist and classical scholar Jane Harrison, "the first woman in England to become an academic, in the fully professional sense-an ambitious, full-time, salaried, university researcher and lecturer" (Mary Beard). Her groundbreaking work helped shape a generation of modernists, including Virginia Woolf, who was particularly influenced to write ‘A Room of One's Own’ by some of Harrison's work. In ‘Square Haunting', Francesca Wade notes, "After leaving university, the academic posts she applied for, went first to her male peers, then to the male students of her male peers; it was not until she returned to Newnham College, at the age of almost fifty, that she found an all-female community which gave her the validation, time and money she needed to produce the works which made her name-and which paved the way for female writers and public thinkers, such as Woolf, Power, Sayers, and H.D." Extremely elusive to find with the wrapper in any collectible condition. (Woolmer 64 : Francesca Wade, Square Haunting, 2020. p. 11)

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good+