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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 discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence ...
Abstract. Virginia Woolf’s essay Three Guineas is a comprehensive attempt to theorize the significance of gender for fascism. Woolf’s analysis of fascism focuses on the patriarchal relationship between men and women, and she argues that the unequal distribution of power between the genders is a key element for producing fascism.
Written in response to three letters – an educated gentleman’s letter asking for her help in his efforts to prevent war, a letter asking for funds to rebuild a women’s college and a letter asking for support for a charity aiding women in finding work – Woolf’s three guineas on war, education and work are a level-headed and compassionate voice of reason in a storm of anger and repression.
Three Guineas, the follow-up to A Room of One's Own, was written the winter of 1936-7 (published in 1938), initially under the title "On Being Despised". This essay gets into Woolf's experiences with three different instances in which she was asked, via written letter, to donate money (in the amount of a guinea) to this or that cause.
- Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey
Recommendations from our site. “In some ways, Three Guineas was the very late sequel to A Room of One’s Own, and it’s very well known as being Woolf’s great pacifist text. She started writing it in the late 1930s but didn’t publish it until 1938. It presents an uncompromising case for pacifism and feminism.”.
Although Three Guineas is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel-essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her earlier work, A Room of One's Own. The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both types of writing at once.
