Woolf writes to the treasurer requesting funding for a women’s college and says that it is “clear must rebuild college differently” (32) and she should teach different subjects, with a focus on understanding human nature. She analyzes university education, an illustration of power and influence that women are unable to access on equal terms. Woolf begins by describing a distinction between the public and the “educated class” (4) and the vast difference in education funds available to men versus women.
Woolf often employs a sardonic, facetious tone, listing possible dissenting opinions before meticulously taking them apart. and the “three guineas” of the title serve as a metaphor for her support of these causes: She will pledge a guinea to ideas she finds agreeable. Within her letter to the unnamed correspondent, Woolf composes letters responding to two hypothetical requests for funding, one to help build a women’s college and another to help women enter professions that require a university education.
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