The Women's Review of Books, June 1st, 1997
"Oh, I've had such a drubbing and a scourging from the Cambridge ladies," Virginia Woolf wrote to Ethel Smyth in 1938, after publishing Three Guineas. "I'm a disgrace to my sex; and a caterpillar on the community. I thought I should raise their hackles - poor old strumpets." Queenie Leavis had written: "Mrs. Woolf's latest effort is a let-down for our sex...this book is not merely silly and ill-informed, though it is that too, it contains some dangerous assumptions, some preposterous claims and some nasty attitudes.... It seems to me the art of living as conceived by a social parasite."
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