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annemariewhelehan 's review for:
Three Guineas
by Virginia Woolf
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I'm sure this book is good. It comprises of 3 essays from Wolfe pondering who would benefit most if she were to donate money to them (The Guinea). It's one long anti-war feminist manifesto, and it is hard to disagree or argue with any particular sentence in it.
It is 3 chapters long, and boy are those chapters long - there is argument after argument, each with several sub arguments, plenty of tangents to add weight to arguments and consider other angles. I found it hard to absorb. I was reading a Nancy Mitford novel at the same time and somebody in that novel referred to Woolf as the only intelligent woman around, and this writing gives you a good insight to her thinking and nobody could argue she wasn't intelligent. The book was first published in 1938, and it is astonishing to see how much of it is relatable today in 2023. It is a work of non-fiction and has a large number of references, so thoroughly researched and arguments well supported.
For me to summarise and take away the key points, I'd have needed a conclusion, some paragraph headings and perhaps an executive summary.
It is 3 chapters long, and boy are those chapters long - there is argument after argument, each with several sub arguments, plenty of tangents to add weight to arguments and consider other angles. I found it hard to absorb. I was reading a Nancy Mitford novel at the same time and somebody in that novel referred to Woolf as the only intelligent woman around, and this writing gives you a good insight to her thinking and nobody could argue she wasn't intelligent. The book was first published in 1938, and it is astonishing to see how much of it is relatable today in 2023. It is a work of non-fiction and has a large number of references, so thoroughly researched and arguments well supported.
For me to summarise and take away the key points, I'd have needed a conclusion, some paragraph headings and perhaps an executive summary.