Three Guineas

Author:   Virginia Woolf
Publisher:   Martino Fine Books
ISBN:  

9781614274841


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   12 September 2013
Format:   Paperback
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2013 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Woolf received three separate requests for a guinea-one from a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war. This book is her threefold answer to the following questions: 1. How should war be prevented? 2. Why does the government not support education for women? (Actually, the fund was a metaphor for family private funds to send the boys of the family to college and not the women.) 3. Why are women not allowed to engage in professional work? 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. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1937 as The Pargiters. When Woolf realized the idea of a novel-essay wasn't working, she separated the two parts. The non-fiction portion became Three Guineas. The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, The Years, which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family.

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Author:   Virginia Woolf
Publisher:   Martino Fine Books
Imprint:   Martino Fine Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781614274841


ISBN 10:   1614274843
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   12 September 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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