Three Guineas Glossary

Three Guineas Glossary

emancipation

liberation from oppression

pacifist

Someone who is a pacifist opposes all forms of war and conflict

Anti-imperialist

A work described as 'anti-imperialist' opposes the idea of imperialism and colonization

Polemic

A polemic is a strongly-worded literary essay which critiques something

discrimination

targeted behavior on the grounds of race, gender, religious belief, age or sexual orientation that is prejudiced in nature and unjustified

Bloomsbury Group

An artistic group who lived and worked near to Bloomsbury, London in the first decades of the 20th century who championed the value of the arts and held liberal views on war and sexuality. Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard were members of this group, which also comprised the economist John Maynard Keynes

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