![]() ![]() As Woolf notes in Three Guineas, the movement's progress was incredibly slow. Despite protests and reforms movements in response, the women’s suffrage movement did not get going in earnest until forty years later. Though it succeeded in doing so for men, it legally debarred women from voting by specifically limiting suffrage to men. Only a little more than a hundred years earlier, in 1832, Parliament passed the Great Reform Act, which was intended to renovate the electoral system and expand suffrage. The first thing to understand is the fragility and newness of women’s rights when Woolf wrote Three Guineas. Written in 1938, Three Guineas should be read in the context of women’s rights, the rise of fascism, and Woolf’s intellectual commitments at that time. (Wikimedia Commons) The British political movement became known informally as “the suffragettes.” Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), c. ![]()
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