Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Autor Alison Lighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2008
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140254105
ISBN-10: 0140254102
Pagini: 402
Ilustrații: integrated b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140254102
Pagini: 402
Ilustrații: integrated b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
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.
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
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