Reminiscences of a Student's Life

Harrison, Jane Ellen

Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1925

About this Item

vii, 90, [2] pp. Red cloth, marbled in black, printed paper label on spine, top edge red, with the dust jacket. Cloth slightly bubbled in spots, some slight foxing to text. The jacket shows a few chips and short tears to edges, lightly rubbed, the spine darkened and toned with a small chip loss to title. First edition of 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 help 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." Uncommon in the trade, and rare in jacket. References: Woolmer 64. Francesca Wade, Square Haunting, 2020. p. 11. Seller Inventory # 2439

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reminiscences of a Student's Life

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

Publication Date: 1925

Edition: First edition.