Virginia Woolf wrote the book in August 1940 during the Battle of Britain for the American monthly magazine The New Republic. A year after her death on March 28, 1941, her writings were collected and the essay was published in the collection Death of the Moth. Woolf, who continued to engage with the connection between pacifism and women's rights during World War II, seeks to document the flickers of feminist consciousness in the darkness.
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