Author: LIGHT, ALISON
Title: Mrs. Woolf and the servants : an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury
Description: New York : Bloomsbury Press 2008. First American Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 376 pages; Description: xxiii. 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subject: Woolf. Virginia. -- 1882-1941 -- Employees. Authors. English -- 20th century -- Biography. Women household employees -- Great Britain -- Biography. Summary: 'When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929. she established her reputation as a feminist. a woman who could imagine a more open and liberal reality. and an advocate for the female voice. Indeed the Bloomsbury set has often been identified with liberal. open-minded views; Woolf's circle of artists and writers were considered Bohemians ahead of their time. But they were also of their time. Like thousands of other British households. Virginia Woolf's relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of her own she so valued was cleaned. heated. and supplied with meals by a series of cooks and maids throughout her childhood and adult life. In Mrs. Woolf and the Servants. Alison Light gives depth and dignity to the long-overlooked servants who worked for the Bloomsbury intellectuals.Weight in Kg appr.:

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