A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas

Was Virginia, as Leonard suggested, 'the least political animal that has ever been since Aristotle invented the definition'? At times, rereading Three Guineas, I have agreed with him. But one does not feel this so strongly when one reads A Room of One's Own. Here Virginia is not concerned with politics in the ordinary sense of the word. Her subject is fiction, a subject which she addresses with the greatest authority and the work itself is presented to us as fiction so that one need not regard the various little taradiddles — as for instance those concerning university regulations — with any concern, for she has already told us that she will mix fact with fancy. But although this work keeps clear of party politics it is political.