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Mrs Woolf and the Servants

Autor Alison Light
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2008
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 Servantsexplores 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140254105
ISBN-10: 0140254102
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: integrated b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Alison Light is the author ofForever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Warsand edited Virginia Woolf’sFlushfor 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 theLondon Review of Books. Her grandmother worked as a domestic servant.

Recenzii

Fascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched
An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery
Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet
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