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Picture of Virginia Woolf, author of Jacob's Room; twentieth century American Literature


 
October 27, 1922
Virginia Woolf   (1882 - 1941)
 
Jacob's Room
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1922 Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room was published. This was the first full-length book published by the Woolfs' Hogarth Press, with a Post-Impressionistic cover designed by sister Vanessa. Having her own publishing house -- this is literal, as the Woolfs began with a small handpress in their dining room -- meant the freedom to experiment. Shortly before starting the book, Virginia said she was after "a new form for a new novel ... no scaffolding; scarcely a brick to be seen; all crepuscular, but the heart, the passion, the humour, everything as bright as fire in the mist ...   FULL STORY »Luminary Graphics, Inc.
 
 
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