Mrs Woolf and the Servants Alison Light

Name: Mrs Woolf and the Servants By Alison Light
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Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

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Summary

Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

Mrs Woolf and the Servants Summary

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.

Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

Mrs Woolf and the Servants Reviews

Fascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched * Literary Review *
An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *
Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet * The Times *
A compelling portrait of how rich and poor women of this time were locked into a strange and pernicious symbiosis, and a vital warning against social inequality * Telegraph *
An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *

About Alison Light

Alison Light is the author of Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars and edited Virginia Woolf's Flush for Penguin Classics. She has worked at the BBC and lectured at London University. She is currently a part-time Professor at the Raphael Samuel History Centre in the University of East London and also teaches in the School of English at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Her grandmother worked as a domestic servant.

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GOR001312836

ISBN 13

9780140254105

ISBN 10

0140254102

Title

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

Author

Alison Light

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

20080807

Number of pages

400

Prizes

Short-listed for Longman History Today Award. Short-listed for Longman History Today Award. Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize. Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize.

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