Sylvia Pankhurst described Rosa Waugh Hobhouse as ‘a Quaker with a mystic’s temperament’. Hobhouse was a pacifist and spent three months of WWI in prison for her beliefs.

The Diary of a Story-Maker is a series of children’s tales highlighting the connection between experiences and the stories they create. Suitably printed and bound at St Dominic’s Press, part of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, an artist’s colony espousing principles of communal life and self-sufficiency.

Ditchling: The Sign of the Willow, 1928. First edition. 12 pages. 20 x 14 x 1. Hardback. No dust jacket, hand printed at St. Dominic’s Press. Gilt title on front board is misspelled. Woodcut illustration on title page. Very good condition. Uncommon.