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Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Author(s): Virginia Woolf (Author)
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Publication Date: 1 May 1963
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0156901773
- ISBN-13: 9780156901772
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Woolf’s goal is not merely freedom and equality for race and sex and people; it is human civilization, a civilization which must be better, sounder, and surer than any we know. Toward so broad a purpose must we move if the human mind and spirit are to stand fearless in this world.”—The New York Times
About the Author
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.
