Three Guineas by Jane Marcus, Mark Hussey, Virginia Woolf (2006, Paperback, Annotated)

In my opinion this is the best version of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas at least in comparison to the other versions in print in the United States. For one, it has the original photos that Virginia Woolf placed in the letters with no captions or real introductions. The pictures are an important part of her argument, not because they are the ones of war she writes about, but because they are the ones of things she ridicules that the reader may not understand without a photo, especially when reading in a different time and place than she is describing. Another thing that this version is great for is the footnotes. Not only does it have Woolf's original footnotes (some seem to be full essays), but it also has editor footnotes that explain phrases that are not familiar to Americans or those not growing up in her time.

As for the book itself I find it to be hard to read and understand, but not necissarily boring either. Her book is organized in three letters, which are not exactly directed at only one person per letter. Each letter however does decide how and why she has decided that a guinea should be donated to specific groups asking for financial backing and more broadly addressing how women can (and cannot) help men in preventing war, which is still in her time a rather exclusively male activity.