Hodes, Charlotte

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. The Hogarth Press, 1929, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, browning to free endpapers

WITH AN ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET BY CHARLOTTE HODES, 186 by 417mm., papercut, signed and dated ("Charlotte Hodes 2017") with note by the artist. Also with two leaves of pencil sketches both signed with initials and dated

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Charlotte Hodes is a painter whose practice includes ceramics, glass, papercuts and installation. She was awarded the first prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 and is currently Professor in Fine Art at the London College of Fashion. Her work has featured in numerous exhibitions and is represented in many public collections.

“A Room of One’s Own made a deep impression on me when I read it not long before becoming a student at the Slade school. It has given me self-belief and confidence in shaping my life as an artist for over thirty years. I hope that increasingly women have rooms of their own”