![]() ![]() This issue has "colonial cloth" stamped on the front free endpaper and on the front panel of the dust jacket. "Her attack on war as a pastime of men in power has survived its ill-timed publication and has come to underpin the conviction that, far from withdrawing from politics, Virginia Woolf had a politics which looked beyond her age" (ODNB). Published the year before the outbreak of the Second World War, it addresses how women can influence and prevent the rise of militarism despite being excluded from education, professional employment, and the public sphere. ![]() First edition, first impression, colonial issue, not noted by the bibliographers, of this book-length essay written as a companion piece to A Room of One's Own (1929). ![]()
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