Three Guineas (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war — and a statement of feminine purpose.

Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.

In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challeng...