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Virginia Woolf received three requests for a guinea: one for world peace, one for female education, and the last to open the professions to women. In response she took up her pen. Three Guineas is one of the great polemics of the century, a savage exposure - reinforced by its illustrations - of the ludicrous pomposity of men, their love of uniforms of any kind, their belief in militarism and male supremacy as the natural order of things. First published in 1938 in a climate of impending world war, it draws a startling comparison between Victorian patriarchy and the threat of Fascist oppression.
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First published in 1938, this is an exposure of the ludicrous pomposity of men, their love of uniforms of any kind and their belief in militarism and male supremacy as the natural order of things. The author also wrote "A Room of One's Own" and "Orlando".
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is famous for her literary criticism, biography and essays as well as her fiction: Flush, Roger Fry and A Room of One's Own are also available as Hogarth paperbacks.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0701209496
- ISBN 13 9780701209490
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages206
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Three Guineas
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. London: Hogarth, 1986. 8vo. Soft cover. 206 p. Black and white photographs. Introduction by Hermione Lee. Owner's bookplate. Minor edgewear. Very good. Seller Inventory # LL-b1089-03
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Introduction by Hermione Lee. xviii, 206pp. Trade paperback. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Margins modestly toned, faint creases on rear wrapper, near fine. Seller Inventory # 516049
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THREE GUINEAS (First paperback edition)
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first paperback edition. Illustrated with five black and white photographic plates as per the first edition, which was published by the Hogarth Press in 1938. This new edition has a detailed 11 page Introduction by Virginia Woolf's biographer Hermione Lee and 45 pages of detailed notes and references. ***Near fine in colour illustrated glossy card covers. Extremities of wrappers just very slightly rubbed. Covers nice and clean. No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Covers bright. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Paper stock slightly tanned. No creases or tears. ***235mm x 154mm. 206 pages including the Introduction by Hermione Lee, Notes and References to the Introduction, and general Notes and references. ***The title "Three Guineas" derives from Virginia Woolf wondering whether she should support three causes with a guinea donation: a society to stop war, a campaign to support the rebuilding of a women's college, and an organization to promote women's employment in the professions. "Three Guineas" is the lesser-known 'companion' work to "A Room of One's Own". Virginia Woolf argues the link between the patriarchal family, its oppression of women and its connection to fascism, and the oppression of women in society, an argument that was at that time controversial, but taken up once more from the late 1960s by feminists who argued that the private is the political. Virginia Woolf thought that war and militarism was the inevitable end result of patriarchal society in which women were excluded from education, the public domain and the professions, and are themes just as relevant and important today as they were back in 1938, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. (Wiki) ***'Virginia Woolf received three requests for a guinea: one for world peace, one for female education, and the last to open the professions to women. In response she took up her pen. "Three Guineas" is one of the great polemics of the century, a savage exposure - reinforced by its illustrations - of the ludicrous pomposity of men, their love of uniforms of any kind, their belief in militarism and male supremacy as the natural order of things. First published in 1938 in a climate of impending world war, it draws a startling comparison between Victorian patriarchy and the threat of Fascist oppression. (Quote taken from the back cover) ***First impression of the first paperback edition of "Three Guineas" by Virginia Woolf in nice collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of the work of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. This first paperback edition is surprisingly uncommon, and is useful for the copious notes and references and the Hermione Lee introduction. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # PB435x
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