Farewell to Youth.

London: William Heinemann Ltd,, 1928. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "for Mabel Ulrich, with all my love, from Storm Jameson". A prodigious writer with a "mania against domestic life" (ODNB), Jameson also worked as a publisher, journalist, playwright, and translator. The present work is semi-autobiographical, and draws on her husband's experiences in the First World War. Jameson (1891-1986) was the first woman to become President of the British chapter of International PEN, holding the post from 1937 to 1945, and was the first woman to read English at the University of Leeds. As well as being a prolific novelist, she was "much in demand both as a literary critic and a commentator on social and political issues" (Maslen, p. 33). Her career in the interwar period was informed by her intimate involvement in campaigning against fascism and social injustice; she was a founding member of the Peace Pledge Union in 1934, though she later reluctantly supported the war against Germany in 1939. The present novel examines Jameson's experiences of the First World War, along with its effects on soldiers, including her husband, the historian and author Guy Chapman (1889-1972). "This knowledge informed Three Kingdoms (1948) and Farewell to Youth (1928), narratives littered with the bodies and psyches of men that the war had rendered either literally or metaphorically impotent" (Briganti, p. 65). Mabel S. Ulrich (1876-1945) was an American doctor and health educator who advocated for improvements in sex education for women and girls. Jameson contributed an essay, "Man the Helpmate", to Ulrich's collection, Man, Proud Man (1932), alternatively titled The More I See of Men in the US. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover framed in blind, gilt star to same, publisher's device blind stamped to rear cover. Cloth bright, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, a little discolouration to edge of rear cover: a near-fine copy. Chiara Briganti, "Stern Cassandra: Storm Jameson, War, and Modernity", Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1999; Elizabeth Maslen, "The Case for Storm Jameson", British Fiction After Modernism, 2007.