![]() ![]() Nor may it be understood as a return to the "fact" versus "vision" opposition which characterized Woolf's interventions in debates on modern fiction in the 1920s. Tracing the destiny of the manuscript's material reveals that The Pargiters's failure cannot be explained simply as a retrospective recognition of the essay and the novel's generic incompatibility. Yet by 1933 she had abandoned the project the manuscript's remains were divided up into a novel, which became The Years, and an essay, which became Three Guineas. 2 Integrating the world of "fact" into the aesthetic domain, connecting the sexual and professional spheres through the novelistic form, this work also promised to inaugurate a new phase in Woolf's approach to the relationship between literature and society. This new book, soon entitled The Pargiters, was to be an "essaynovel" opening up a new avenue for formal experimentation after the text she was then completing, the "play-poem" The Waves. I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book-a sequel to A Room of One's Own-about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions for Women perhaps-Lord, how exciting! 1 In 1931, Virginia Woolf hit on new idea for a book: ![]()
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