*Three Guineas* is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make d
Three Guineas
โ Scribed by Virginia Woolf
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and "protect culture, and intellectual liberty." This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose.
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