Jacob's Room
On this day in 1922 Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room was published. This was the first full-length book put out by the Woolfs' Hogarth Press, with a Post-Impressionistic cover designed by sister Vanessa. It was 'a new form for a new novel,' wrote Woolf before starting; afterwards, she felt confident 'that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice,' and that 'Either I am a great writer or a nincompoop.'
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