The Psychology of the Servant Problem: A Study in Social Relationships
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1925.
First edition. 96 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with slight bowing to boards, foxing to edges and prelims, a few small spots of foxing to margins of contents. Former owner's name and info written on front free endpaper. Rare.
Occultist and co-founder of The Fraternity of the Inner Light Dion Fortune's feminist political work on the degradation of being a servant; her only work written under her real name. She conceptualized being a servant not just as a job but as an identity, writing, “Being a servant is very painful to one’s self-respect and no amount of money will compensate that injury to anyone who has independence of spirit.” A major work in English labor-writing and early 20th century feminism.
Price: $3,500.00