Jacob's Room

Jacob’s Room was the first of Virginia Woolf’s novels to be published by the Hogarth Press, founded with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in their home at Hogarth House in Richmond in 1917. It is an episodic tale that attempts to evoke the inner life of Jacob Flanders and his social milieu during the first decade and a half of the 20th century. This novel was hailed by friends such as T.S. Eliot, and it represents Virginia Woolf’s first move towards experimentation, for which she was later recog...