A Room of One's Own
- London: The Hogarth Press, 1929
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. 172 pp. Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear and soiling to cloth, and very slight bumping to lower corners. Typical offsetting from jacket to free endpapers, one gathering misaligned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear, foxing, toning, and soiling. Partial split at front spine fold reinforced with archival tape to verso. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A12b.
The first edition of the classic feminist text in which Woolf argues the need for women's financial independence from men. The book is based on two lectures delivered to students at Newnham and Girton, Cambridge's underfunded and second-class colleges for women, who could not be awarded full degrees until 1948. Woolf compared her visits to male and female educational institutions:
"Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?
Details
Title
A Room of One's Own
Author
Woolf, Virginia
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
The Hogarth Press: London
Date
1929
Edition
First Edition