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"Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes." Setting out to answer the question "How are we to prevent war?" Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men must first be addressed. Framing her arguments in the form of a letter, Woolf wittily... Read Full Overview

"Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes."

Through a series of letters, Virginia Woolf's powerful and provocative extended essay confronts the intertwined issues of fascism, feminism, and war.

Written as a response to three separate requests for donations from feminist organisations, Three Guineas... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

In Three Guineas, first published in June, 1938 (as the threat of war between Britain and Nazi Germany was looming larger day by day) Virginia Woolf set about answering three questions. How should war be prevented? Why does the government not support education for women? Why... Read Full Overview

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which 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... Read Full Overview

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which 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... Read Full Overview

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which 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... Read Full Overview

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which 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... Read Full Overview