In early 1933, having apparently decided that this method of conjoining fact and vision was insufficient to both her aesthetic and her critical goals, she abandoned the experiment, compressed the fictional chapters into what would become the “1880” section of The Years and reserved her social critique for Three Guineas. It was mid- 1932 by the time she began work on this project: what she hoped would be a new literary form based in social fact, a “novel-essay” that alternated fictional scenes with interchapters of historical explanation and critical commentary. I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book–a sequel to a Room of Ones Own–about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions for Women perhaps–Lord how exciting! On the evening of 20 January 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary,
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