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Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas (a book-length essay)

This book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in June 1938, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. Virginia Woolf makes the connection between war and the economy and a woman's role (or lack there of) in both. She restates the idea from a Room of One's Own that the most important thing a woman has gained is the ability to participate in a profession. When she is making her own money, rather than relying on the genorosity of her father or husband, she has an opportunity to be truly independant.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 — 28 March 1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
269 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted6 years ago
    marriage until the year 1919 — less than twenty years ago — was the only profession open to us
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted6 years ago
    The Bishop of London maintained that ‘the real danger to the peace of the world today were the pacifists. Bad as war was dishonour was far worse.’
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted6 years ago
    Here, immediately, are three reasons which lead your sex to fight; war is a profession; a source of happiness and excitement; and it is also an outlet for manly qualities, without which men would deteriorate.
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