Three Guineas is now thought of as a companion piece to Woolf’s brilliant extended essay A Room of One’s Own, which I read a couple of years ago. These matters, superficially disparate, are in fact bound up together, and Woolf explores the common ground they share. In it she responds to three letters she has received: the first from a barrister who asks for her opinion on the best means to prevent war and for a donation to support his society the second from the treasurer of a women’s college, asking for a donation towards its rebuilding fund the third soliciting money for a society promoting the entry of women into the professions. I’m a bit of an amateur historian, and I know that it’s the year before the Second World War started, so there’s that.īy 1938 war was very much on both the cards and the mind of Virginia Woolf, whose Three Guineas was published that year. 1938 was a fascinating year for literature and also for the world in general. I’m very glad to be taking part in the 1938 Club, curated by Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings.
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