The Psychology of the Servant Problem: A Study in Social Relationships

London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1925. First Edition. First edition. 96 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with slight bowing to boards, foxing to edges and prelims, a few small spots of foxing to margins of contents. Former owner's name and info written on front free endpaper. Rare.

Occultist and co-founder of The Fraternity of the Inner Light Dion Fortune's feminist political work on the degradation of being a servant; her only work written under her real name. She conceptualized being a servant not just as a job but as an identity, writing, "Being a servant is very painful to one's self-respect and no (truncated) amount of money will compensate that injury to anyone who has independence of spirit." A major work in English labor-writing and early 20th century feminism. (Inventory #: 140943962)