Mrs Woolf and the Servants

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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.

Additional information

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 3.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

400

Publisher

Year Published

2008-8-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0140254102

About The Author

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.

Fascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched

Other text

An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery

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