Mrs Woolf and the Servants

Light, Alison

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Using Virginia Woolf and four of her servants as a jumping off point, Alison Light explores the extraordinary world of the domestic servant in the first half of the 20th century.

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Publish Date: 07/08/2008

Description

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.

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Weight 500 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 35 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

376

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.912 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K