Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury - Couverture souple

Light, Alison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 159691694X ISBN 13 : 9781596916944

Editeur : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009

Synopsis

Mrs. Woolf and the Servants "Superbly researched, often passionately eloquent, and enthralling throughout."--"Washington Post Book World "When Virginia Woolf wrote "A Room of One's Own "in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woo... Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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)

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159691694X
• ISBN 13: 9781596916944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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