Three themes or questions were raised in Three Guineas, which is a work of non-fiction (novel-essay) written with the purpose of tying up the loose ends that remained from Woolf’s previous extended essay, A Room of One’s Own.
The quote “What is this mysterious process that takes about three years to accomplish, costs a round sum in hard cash, and turns the crude and raw human being into the finished product – an educated man or woman?” (Woolf 184) appeals to the value of education and its definition in the context of the twentieth-century society. For Woolf, the issues of pacifism, education, and the role of women were inseparable in Three Guineas she wished to reeducate those who were miseducated. Nevertheless, Three Guineas established her as a “significant voice in the cause of pacifism” (Taylor 186). At the very beginning, it is important to note that Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas is not a literary piece that had been extensively analyzed as to its role as an educational treatise. Within the context of feminist activism and social thinking, the writings of Virginia Woolf present an insight into the problematic socioeconomic processes of the twentieth century: wage discrimination and social exclusion of women.
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