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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.
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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)
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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)
`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
domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the
sensibility of a poet' The Times
`Compelling' Telegraph
`Illuminating' Harper's Bazaar
`Fascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Literary
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`Light has uncovered material that is fascinating and important, both in
itself and for what it tells us about Bloomsbury and domestic service...an
absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics,
entertaining in its delivery' The Independent
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0140254102
- ISBN 13 9780140254105
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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