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Mrs Woolf and the Servants

Alison Light author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:7th Aug '08

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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.

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

  • Short-listed for Longman History Today Award.
  • Short-listed for Longman History Today Award.
  • Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize.
  • Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize.

ISBN: 9780140254105

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

400 pages