Three Guineas

virginia woolf jane marcus mark hussey

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.

Genres nonfictionclassicsfeminismessaysphilosophypoliticswomensliterature20th centurybritish literature

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 1,1938

This edition

Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Published: July 3, 2006 by Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156031639
ASIN: 0156031639
Language: English

About the author

virginia woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."