Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
Explores the volatile, emotional territory which is the hidden history of domestic service. This book is a study of one of Britain's greatest literary modernists. It is a testimony to the ways in which individual creativity always needs the support of others.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670867172 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670867179 |
| Title | Mrs Woolf and the Servants |
| Author | Alison Light |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Commended for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, Short-listed for Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2007 |
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