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THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<
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THREE GUINEAS. VIRGINIA WOOLF. HOGARTH PRESS. 1943 >>FIRST UNIFORM EDITION, ASSOCIATED WITH WAR POET<<

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Title: THREE GUINEAS.

Publisher: Hogarth Press, 37 Mecklenburgh Square, London, W.C.1.

Publication Date: 1943

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Uniform Edition

FIRST UNIFORM EDITION. 336 printed pages, 5 black & white photographic plates. Contemporary ink dedication inscription on  the front paste-down endpaper, dated 1944. Provenance: Reverend Edward Shillito. 130 x 182 mm. Original Jade green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine (very mild fading at head). Complete with unrepaired, original, pale green dust-jacket printed in darker green (spine slightly darkened; some light spotting, very slightly worn  at edges & corners & with some tears  at hinges, mostly closed). The 1st Uniform edition was issued in 7,250 copies and sold for 7 shillings and sixpence each.

Rev. Edward Edward Shillito (1872 – 1948), Anglican priest, author and poet, who served as a chaplain during the First World War and is now remembered mostly for this poem, ‘Jesus of the Scars’ which is strongly influenced by the heroic sacrifices of many during the conflict and that portrays God suffering as a man. The first edition was published on 2nd June 1938 in an edition of 16,250 copies at 7s. 6d. each. Published in 1938, as Europe drifted towards war with the rise of fascism in Europe, Three Guineas is a companion piece and sequel to Virginia Woolf's earlier polemic A Room of One's Own. The common themes are women and education, and the need for women to be economically independent. The question Woolf discusses in Three Guineas is how women can prevent war when they are excluded from education, the professions, and the public sphere. The title Three Guineas derives from Woolf pondering whether she should support three causes with a guinea donation, these being 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. Woolf had been observing the rise of fascism in Europe with a keen interest. She was well aware that many of the newly gained women's rights in Germany were being eroded as Nazism forced women to readopt traditional roles. Woolf was concerned that a similar situation could occur in Britain. Three Guineas is essentially a critique of patriarchy. Woolf made the link between patriarchal family life and its connection to fascism. The oppression of domestic life for women is reflected in the oppression of women in society. This argument was very contentious at the time but has gained currency since the late 1960s when feminist commentators argued that the private is the political. Woolf maintained that war was a product of men's socialised norms of violence, competition, and domination. These norms were embedded through the structures of education, and the professions. Women, being excluded from these structures, developed different values. Woolf recognised that to have any influence women must take part in the public sphere, but she argued, women should retain their difference and not adopt the very attitudes that they needed to change. Three Guineas is a relatively neglected work of Woolf's that deserves greater attention as it is central to an understanding of Woolf's feminism. Her linking of the private and the public, and how the structures of patriarchal society lead to militarism is still a challenging argument for today's world (B.L.).