First Edition of Virignia Woolf’s Memories of A Working Women’s Guild
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WOOLF, Virginia. Memories of A Working Women’s Guild, Printed in in The Yale Review: A National Quarterly, Autumn 1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Pages 121-138; 280 pages total. Original Wrappers, side-stapled in original blue printed wrappers. This was the very first printing of Memories of a Working Women’s Guild, which would be later revised and reprinted as the introduction to Life as We Have Known It for the Hogarth Press, and collected in The Captain's Death Bed, 1950; Selections from Her Essays, 1966; Collected Essays, Vol. 4, 1967. Woolf regularly held meetings for her local branch of the Women's Co-operative Guild, whose objectives included the establishment of minimum wages and maternity benefits. In Memoirs of A Working Women’s Guild, Woolf engages in a discussion of the social movement and her position of privilege, wherein she offers a hopeful vision of cross-class literary discourse while acknowledging she sits as a "benevolent spectator" to the actions of the guild. Woolf positions the memoirs in Life as We Have Known It as a record of human strength: “These Letters are only fragments. These voices are beginning only now to emerge from silence into half-articulate speech. These lives are still half-hidden in profound obscurity. To write even what is written has been a task of labor and difficulty. The writing has been done in kitchens, at odds and ends of time, in the midst of distractions and obstacles-- but really there is no need for me, in a letter addressed to you, to lay stress upon the hardships of working women’s lives.” First page torn out. Some shelf wear; Light toning to pages. Pages clean and binding tight. Overall in good condition.Item #16624
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